Airplane Quotes - Page 10

• Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

  Richard Bach

  Men, Flying, Tests

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.209, Dell

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• The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

  Richard Bach

  Art, Machines, Spirit

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.102, Dell

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• Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with no bearing on conventional explanation. This Headquarters has come to the determination that the mystery airplanes are in fact not earthly and, according to secret intelligence sources, they are in all probability of interplanetary origin.

  George C. Marshall

  Determination, Army, California

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• What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? Then, while falling, I release the helium and fill the balloon. How long of a fall would I need in order for the balloon to slow me enough that I could land safely?

  Colin Rowe

  Couple, Fall, Order

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• Almost 60,000 average Americans had the courage to go out and charge those beaches on Normandy, to drop out of airplanes who knows where, and take on the battle for freedom. Average Americans, the very Americans that our government now and this president does not trust to make a decision on your health care plan. Those Americans risked everything so they could make that decision on their health care plan.

  Rick Santorum

  Beach, Government, Average

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'donnell, www.today.com. July 20, 2011.

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• Remember, you fly an airplane with you head, not your hands and feet.

  Bevo Howard

  Remember You, Remembers You, Hands

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• I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.

  Bam Margera

  Games, Play, Missing

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• I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

  Michael Trucco

  Birthday, Interest, Confronting

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• Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!

  Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

  Airports, Land, Flying

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• Thats why we are inconveniencing air traffickers, to make sure nobody is carrying weapons on airplanes.

  George W. Bush

  Air, Weapons

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• Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can't remember the name, but it wasn't even a sad movie. It caught me off guard. I was on an airplane.

  Roger Federer

  Couple, Names, Remember

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• I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, Trying, Use

  "Collective amnesia: Matthews, Klein and Sullivan gush over Rice, forgetting history of misleading and false statements" by Rob Morlino, www.mediamatters.org. June 26, 2006.

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• This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories, our public utilities, gave us the telegraph, the telephone, the electric light, the automobile, the airplane, the radio and a higher standard of living for all the people than obtains anywhere else in the world. No great invention ever came from a government-owned industry.

  George B. Cortelyou

  Country, Light, Government

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• One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.

  Renee Fleming

  Junk, Magazines, Mail

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• Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Men, Feet, Trying

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• If every UFO report could be convincingly credited to some conventional astronomical or atmospheric phenomenon, there would be no UFO mystery. It is precisely because so many UFO reports cannot logically be blamed on stars, planets, satellites, airplanes, balloons, etc., that a UFO mystery has existed since at least the mid-1940s.

  Don Berliner

  Stars, Would Be, Etc

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• There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people and so many airplanes. This is an extraordinary airport. . . it could be classed as one of the wonders of the modern world.

  John F. Kennedy

  Airports, People, World

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• Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance he'd have tried at least a ride. . . . We'll stick to the army on the ground and the battleships at sea.

  John W. Weeks

  Army, Sea, Air Power

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• Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.

  Giulio Douhet

  Sight, Enemy, Panic

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• Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

  Giulio Douhet

  Independence, Excellence, Air Power

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.32, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Flying, Air Power, Pilots

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• Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.

  Walter Cunningham

  Dream, Men, Aviation

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• It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker with it. But if your airplane breaks down, you can't sit on a convenient cloud and tinker with that!

  Katherine Stinson

  Clouds, Aviation, Driving

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• He moves not through distance, but through the ranges of satisfaction that come from hauling himself up into the air with complete and utter control; from knowing himself and knowing his airplane so well that he can come somewhere close to touching, in his own special and solitary way, that thing that is called perfection.

  Richard Bach

  Distance, Moving, Knowing

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.209, Dell

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• I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die.

  Richard Bach

  Pride, Aviation, I've Learned

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