Airplane Quotes - Page 20

• There'll come a time when airplanes are much more efficient when it comes to producing lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions, there'll come a time when we'll be able to offset those emissions much more effectively than we do now. But alas at the moment, flying airplanes is really one of the least defensible things that we do and it's one of the things that I indulge in quite frequently, alas.

  Dale Jamieson

  Flying, Moments, Gas

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I get on the airplane and there's a screen in front of everything. You get into a taxicab in New York, there's a screen blinking at you. I think it's going to have a tremendous effect on our brains, because those bright, saturated colors and those strong lines, they do things to your brain.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Strong, New York, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Some people like to travel by train because it combines the slowness of a car with the cramped public exposure of an airplane.

  Dennis Miller

  People, Car, Exposure

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• Keep in mind our Constitution predates the Industrial Revolution. Our founders did not know about electricity, the train, telephones, radio, television, automobiles, airplanes, rockets, nuclear weapons, satellites, or space exploration. There's a lot they didn't know about. It would be interesting to see what kind of document they'd draft today. Just keeping it frozen in time won't hack it.

  Ross Perot

  Space, Interesting, Mind

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• Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves.

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Giving, Special

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.94, Dell

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• A logo doesn't need to say what a company does. Restaurant logos don't need to show food, dentist logos don't need to show teeth, furniture store logos don't need to show furniture. Just because it's relevant, doesn't mean you can't do better. The Mercedes logo isn't a car. The Virgin Atlantic logo isn't an airplane. The Apple logo isn't a computer. Etc.

  David Airey

  Mean, Apples, Car

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• The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our mechanicians, in like manner, be ultimately forced to admit that aerial flight is one of that great class of problems with which men can never cope... I do not claim that this is a necessary conclusion from any past experience. But I do think that success must await progress of a different kind from that of invention.

  Simon Newcomb

  Past, Men, Thinking

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• Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission.

  Loren Cunningham

  Great Commission

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• The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.

  Simon Newcomb

  Distance, Future, Men

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• When I was a very little boy I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

  John Travolta

  New York, Boys, Airports

  "John Travolta: 'I don't think I would be here without Scientology'". Interview with Carmen Gray, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2013.

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• I put my phone on airplane mode and it didn't fly Worst. Transformer. Ever.

  Ashley Purdy

  Phones, Worst

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• Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?
  Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

  George Bailey

  Anchors, Sound, Three

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• Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

  Simon Newcomb

  Bird, Speed, Natural

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• As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was 15, I designed, built and flew a toy model airplane which won the then-famous James Gordon Bennett Cup. By 16 I had discovered that design could be fun and profitable, and this lesson has never been lost on me.

  Raymond Loewy

  Fun, Science, Boys

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• When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Flight, Failing, Ends

  FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Nov 21, 2010

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• I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Dream, Kids, Used

  "The Unflinching Eye: Photojournalist Mary Ellen Mark" by Vicki Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. July 12, 1987.

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• When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows.
  And I’m dying to meet the artist.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Falling In Love, Art, Ocean

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• Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Men

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

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• We're heading for a gov. shutdown. This is serious. W/o the gov who will fail to inspect our airplanes? Who will fail to secure our borders? Who will put us 14 trillion dollars in debt?

  Jay Leno

  Borders, Dollars, Debt

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• I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Dark, Islands, Blue

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• One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.

  Erich Warsitz

  Electric Motors, Safety, Feelings

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• These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls of the fuselage as though no walls were there. At times, voices come out of the air itself, clear yet far away, traveling through distances that can't be measured by the scale of human miles; familiar voices, conversing and advising on my flight, discussing problems of my navigation, reassuring me, giving me messages of importance unattainable in ordinary life.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Wall, Voice, Giving

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• I headed for this white mountain, but was caught in the wind and the mist . . . I followed the cliff from north to south, but the wind, against which I was fighting, got even stronger. A break in the coast appeared to my right, just before Dover Castle. I was madly happy. I headed for it. I rushed for it. I was above ground!

  Louis Bleriot

  Fighting, Wind, White

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• I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I unexpectedly took to the air, and the first thing I knew, I was flying.

  Arthur P. Warner

  Wind, Flying, Firsts

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• God forgives man the time spent looking at airplane photos.

  Barrett Tillman

  Men, Forgiving, Aviation

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