Airplane Quotes - Page 2

• Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Teaching, Cutting

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

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• My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

  Sally Ride

  Flight, Physics, Missions

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• Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Sports, Witty

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• If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA to build one.

  Ross Perot

  Today, Size, Aviation

  "Ross Perot Speaks Out".

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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

  Successful, Europe, Cost

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

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• I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

  Chuck Yeager

  Flying, Dying, Machines

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

  Ted Danson

  Sky, Flying, Sooner Or Later

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• The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

  Johnny Depp

  Party, Actors, Serious

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• Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

  Casey Stengel

  Funny, Sports, Humor

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• The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

  Alan Shepard

  Attitude, Pilots, Way

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• I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

  Jack Vance

  Automobile

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• I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.

  Niki Lauda

  Want, Passengers, Products

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

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• These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.

  Henri Coanda

  Children, Perfection, Paper

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• Lets take flight simulation as an example. If youre trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You dont have to get in an airplane until late in the process.

  Roy Romer

  Trying, Example, Pilots

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• No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

  Richard Perle

  Should Have, Soldier, Tasks

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.195, Random House

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• Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

  Alan Shepard

  Morning, Airports, Teens

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• But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.

  Birch Bayh

  Running, Jobs, School

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• All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

  Mark Kennedy

  Technology, Men, Inspire

  "Beer, Boxers, Batteries, And Bodily Noises". Book by Stuart Kantor, p. 39, 2004.

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• If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Science, Technology, Bird

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

  John Boyd Orr

  Government, Political, Environment

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• I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Passing, Heard, Overhead

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.238, Canongate Books

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• Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me. ... And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me.

  Martin Seligman

  Motivation, Moving, Inspiration

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• Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  People, Rooms, Next

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• I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

  Jean Kerr

  Inspirational, Travel, Weight Loss

  JEAN KERR (1960). “THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE LINES”

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