Aeroplanes Quotes - Page 9

• In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

  Bridget Riley

  Space, Painting, Planes

  Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

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• What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.

  Robert Mugabe

  Ships, Problem, Used

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• In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.

  Niki Lauda

  Airplane, Successful, Europe

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

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• In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Men, June

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.852, Delphi Classics

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• The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

  Claude Debussy

  Age, Diligence, Automobile

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• The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

  Gene Tierney

  Change, Crash, Planes

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

  Lee Ryan

  Fall, Thinking, Dying

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• Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

  Sheena Easton

  Kids, Kind, Planes

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• People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane.

  Steve Largent

  Data, People, Planes

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• Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.

  Robert Goulet

  Years, Champion, Planes

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• The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Sodium, Vapour, Rotation

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• On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

  Frederick Soddy

  Ignorance, Planes, Adversaries

  Frederick Soddy's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1922.

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• She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

  Ted Olson

  Air, Hours, Said

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• I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

  Brenda Lee

  Air, Awful, Crash

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• I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

  Judy Collins

  Song, Too Much, Planes

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• The cause of the attack was not American foreign policy but an amoral disregard for human life.It is grotesque to suggest that a four-year-old girl, making her first and only flight in an aeroplane, should somehow bear responsibility for the actions of a government for whom she was never allowed the chance to grow up and vote either for or against.

  Menzies Campbell

  Girl, Growing Up, Responsibility

  "Key quotes from the Commons debate" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2001.

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• It was the most romantic plane ever made.

  Ken Follett

  Romantic, Made, Planes

  Ken Follett (2011). “Night Over Water”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

  George Orwell

  Air Power, Weapons, Serious

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.

  Walter Alexander Raleigh

  Horse, Friendly, Air Power

  Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Henry Albert Jones (1922). “The War in the Air: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force ...”, The Clarendon Press

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• As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if within an hour there after a swifty gliding aeroplane might take its flight from St Petersburg and drop half a ton of dynamite above the enemy's war offices? Could any nation afford to war upon any other with such hazards in view?

  John Brisben Walker

  War, Russia, Japan

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• The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all nations would consent to abolish air bombardment . . . that would mean the greatest possible release from fear.

  Ernest Rutherford

  War, Mean, Air

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• As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Air Power, Arms, Weapons

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• Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.

  Eliza Haywood

  Giving, Admiration, Charm

  Eliza Haywood (1999). “Selections from The Female Spectator”, p.72, Oxford University Press

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• Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

  Chuck Jones

  Two, Doe, Three

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• I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get "Okaaaaaay, honey." I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.

  Kristen Bell

  Airplane, Car, Trying

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

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