Airplane Quotes - Page 13

• The poet is stepping out of the airplane.

  Jack Spicer

  Poet

  Jack Spicer (2010). “My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.345, Wesleyan University Press

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• I'm drunk and high at the same time/Drinking champagne on the airplane.

  2 Chainz

  Drinking, Drunk, Champagne

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• Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Business, Buying

  Comment to reporters during the IBM PC launch, 1981.

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• It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Navy, Battle, Aviation

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• If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Funny, Life, Flower

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• Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Believe, Men, Aviation

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• Each system will depend on resources available, not from the bottom up or top down. In other words, if you put 500 passengers in an airplane that's designed to carry 100, it won't get off the ground. So all decisions are made based upon the physical equipment you're working with, or the environmental resources available. They're not made by Fresco or any other person. They're arrived at by studies and research.

  Jacque Fresco

  Top Down, Decision, Environmental

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• I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Wife

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• I don't travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them.

  Aaron Spelling

  Mean, Kids, People

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• It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as saying that the three great developments in twentith century engineering are the airplane, the computer, and the pop-top aluminum can. Chaos and fractals are not even twentieth century ideas: chaos was first observed by Poincare and fractals were familiar to Cantor a century ago, although neither man had the computer at his disposal to show the rest of the world the beauty he was seeing.

  Robert L. Devaney

  Men, Discovery, Engineering

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• Whether I'm at the hangar or at the airport or on an airplane, I get respect. And that's the best part of my day.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airports

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• If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Flower, Men, Needs

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• Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

  Chuck Daly

  Jobs, Land, Flying

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• I was 19 when I first auditioned for 'American Idol.' I'd never been on an airplane; I'd never been outside of my hometown, except to go to Myrtle Beach. I'm 22 now. I'm learning a lot about life, and it's all in front of the cameras.

  Kellie Pickler

  Beach, Idols, Cameras

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• What if airplane pilots said, 'my first three years were a wreck'? We worry about the safety of people at the hands of these other professions. Why don't we worry about children being at the hands of an adult, even a well-meaning adult, who doesn't know what he or she is doing?

  Deborah

  Children, Hands, Years

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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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• We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.

  Joe Sutter

  Done, Fields, Aviation

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• In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any relevance to which one.

  Gordon Bethune

  Years, Choices, Chocolate

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• The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Sweat, Oil, Smell

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• This is just a hunch, but I bet airplanes think helicopters are assholes.

  Dana Gould

  Thinking, Hunches, Helicopters

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• The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.

  Bob Blumer

  Aviation, Transformation, Wonder

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• To me, an airplane is a great place to diet.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Humorous, Air Travel, Aviation

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• In an effort to look cool, I am going to stop shouting Hey, you! at airplanes.

  Dana Gould

  Effort, Looks, Hey

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• Black people don't hijack planes, alright? Now I'll be the first to admit, we steal a lot of stuff, but we do not hijack planes. In fact, in the history of aviation, a black person has never even attempted to hijack a plane. Do you want to know why? Because you can't sell an airplane.

  Alonzo Bodden

  People, Black, Stuff

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• You can't bring tweezers on an airplane. If I'm on a plane and you try to hijack it with tweezers, I'll whip your ass, man. You think I'm going to be late because you've got tweezers and a bad attitude?

  Alonzo Bodden

  Attitude, Thinking, Men

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