Airplane Quotes - Page 18

• Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

  Sissy Spacek

  Character, Texas, House

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  If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

  Chuck Yeager

  Next Day, Use, Outstanding

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• It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work, to schedule your time and stick to it. Even if it’s just for an hour or so each day, you have to get a babysitter and make the time. If you’re going to make writing succeed you have to approach it as a job.

  Rosellen Brown

  Jobs, Writing, Hobbies

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• Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

  Cory Lidle

  Bus, Ifs

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• The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.

  Cory Lidle

  Flying, Safe, Worried

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• From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.

  George Nethercutt

  Unique, Technology, Government

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• Even before we . . . had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out of the airplane with stars in my eyes.

  Jerrie Cobb

  Stars, Home, Eye

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• If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all. It becomes merely a dream.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Dream, Travel, Feet

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Meditation in Action”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

  Paul Dickson

  Funny Life, Law, Want

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• Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type of work requires legions of people. In order to do things well, that can't be done by one person, you must find extraordinary people.

  Steve Jobs

  Order, People, Done

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• I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

  Carroll Shelby

  Thinking, East Texas, Car

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• When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Feelings, Lovely, Finding Yourself

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• These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a toy made of paper children use to play with. My opinion is we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles. I consider the aircraft of the future, that which will take off vertically, fly as usual and land vertically. This flying machine should have no parts in movement. The idea came from the huge power of the cyclons

  Henri Coanda

  Children, Should Have, Land

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• When I saw that show Lost I learned something. Other than one sort of big dude if you're in an airplane crash only models survive. So you know sit next to somebody pretty, but anyhow.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Next, Saws, Crash

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane.

  Karl Kraus

  Psychology, Bus, Accompany

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.

  David Letterman

  Brother, New York, Cities

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• Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

  Claude Debussy

  Victory, Progress, Demand

  "Music in History: The Evolution of an Art". Book by Howard Decker McKinney and William Robert Anderson, 1957.

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• It's always tough for me to make a movie, and then sit on an airplane and watch somebody watch it on their phone.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Movie, Phones, Watches

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• Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Heart, Men

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• I talked to Beyonce and she wants to learn how to speak Arabic and she wants to jump out of an airplane. I don't want to do that. I just don't want to wash my hair every day.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hair, Want, Speak

  Source: www.today.com

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• If I was on an airplane, the people in coach would know who I am. But no one in first class would know.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Who I Am, Class, People

  "Q&A With Jim Gaffigan: ‘Hot Pocket’ Comedian Reaches Out to Our Wounded Soldiers (VIDEO)". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed total of all acts, but from the extraordinary power of exceedingly rare incidents of depravity to inflict catastrophic damage, especially in our technological age when airplanes can become powerful bombs. (An even more evil man, armed only with a longbow, could not have wreaked such havoc at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.)

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Men, Evil

  "I Have Landed". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, p. 390: "The Good People of Halifax", 2002.

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• An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

  Richard Bach

  Joy, Understanding, Aviation

  Richard Bach (2012). “Nothing By Chance”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.

  Ken Kesey

  Reality, Wind, Glue

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.160, Penguin

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• I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven't been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife - I didn't put up for that stuff just to come in second.

  Barack Obama

  Baby, Fighting, Games

  "Obama: ‘I Don’t Believe in Coming in Second’" by Jeff Zeleny, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. September 6, 2008.

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