Aeroplanes Quotes - Page 6

• The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!

  Sam Hughes

  Boys, Play, Devil

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• The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.

  Hugo Eckener

  Ocean, Aviation, Predictions

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• In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.

  Philip Gibbs

  Running, Years, Car

  Philip Gibbs (1928). “The Day After To-morrow: What is Going to Happen to the World?”

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• The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

  Hermann Goring

  Razors, Aviation, Blades

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• The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it will have specialized uses, and in these it will surpass the aeroplane. The fact that you can land at your front door is the reason you can't carry heavy loads efficiently.

  Emile Berliner

  Technology, Land, Doors

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• I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

  Keren Ann

  Home, Planes, Happens

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• We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

  Diane Sawyer

  Country, Thinking, Pilots

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• I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

  John Dykstra

  Photography, Airplane, College

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• The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Men, Understanding, Earth

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1928). “Reconciliation: a plain statement of the gracious provision Jehovah has made to bring all men into full harmony with Himself that the obedient ones may have everlasting life on earth in contentment and complete happiness”

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• There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

  Anna Katharine Green

  Artist, Two, Desire

  Anna Katharine Green (2016). “THE DETECTIVE EBENEZER GRYCE MYSTERIES – Complete Collection: 11 Mystery Novels in One Volume: New York Murder-Mysteries: The Leavenworth Case, A Strange Disappearance, The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, Hand and Ring, That Affair Next Door, Lost Man’s Lane, The Circular Study, One of My Sons…”, p.701, e-artnow

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• But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  Mean, Soldier, Admiration

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• There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Joy, Admiration, Evidence

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• I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.

  Robbie Keane

  Player, Joy, Might

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• I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

  Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma

  Mistake, Past, Movement

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• Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Country, Falling In Love, Military

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• I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Art, Play, Games

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• What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

  Joseph Priestley

  Admiration And Respect, Contempt, Known

  Joseph Priestley, John Towill Rutt (1831). “The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt”, p.346

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• And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

  Rene Cassin

  Children, Military, Doctors

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• Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Privilege, May, Admiration

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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• You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

  Scott Stapp

  Mistake, Proud, Records

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• I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Grateful, Past, Cnn

  "Christiane Amanpour quits CNN" by Mark Sweney, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

  John Polkinghorne

  Objectivity, Discovery, Views

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• At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

  John Astin

  Ravens, People, Admiration

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.

  Anne Dudley

  Years, Ideas, Icons

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• I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.

  Julia Gardiner Tyler

  Winter, Presidential, Reign

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