Airplane Quotes - Page 26

• History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.

  Gilbert Highet

  Book, Reading, Home

  "Peoples, Places and Books". Book by Gilbert Highet, 1953.

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• Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.

  Charlie Munger

  Engineering, Bridges, Safety

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• I was Chairman for two days. I had an airplane with my engines, hit a building I insured, was covered by a network I owned and I still have to increase earnings by 11 percent.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Two, Earning, Building

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• In the railroads, some people read clearly printed departure signs and then proceed to ask several times what they say. On airplanes, they demand things they know they cannot have. In their cars, they load up, drive away and then suddenly realize they don't know where they're going.

  Lucinda Franks

  Car, People, Railroads

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• As soon as I jumped out of the airplane, I realized I had forgotten my parachute. Thank God we were still on the runway.

  Demetri Martin

  Thank God, Forgotten, Runway

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• You might be a redneck if the antenna on your truck is a danger to low flying airplanes.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Flying, Might

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• Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.

  Eric Holder

  New York, Thinking, Squares

  "Attorney General's Blunt Warning on Terror Attacks" by Jack Cloherty, Pierre Thomas, abcnews.go.com. December 21, 2010.

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• I didn't really because I know myself well enough to know that if I actually sit down and think about sort of I can spook myself out like anyone, you know? It's sort of like you've got to sort of jump out of the airplane when you're skydiving. If you spend 20 minutes sitting on the lip you probably won't do it.

  Justin Theroux

  Thinking, Sitting, Down And

  Source: collider.com

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• In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

  Bill Engvall

  Country, Brother, Road Trip

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• I don't sit down with a goal of writing. I read books or magazines. I watch TV. I go to the doctor. I get on airplanes. I live a normal life and sometimes I'll notice something or read things or experience things.

  Brian Regan

  Book, Writing, Doctors

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• No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you're on an airplane, they always say, "in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor." We need oxygen right now.

  Benjamin Carson

  Oxygen, Needs, Emergencies

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The triad is our ability of the United States to conduct nuclear attacks using airplanes, using missiles launched from silos or from the ground, and also from our nuclear subs' ability to attack. And it's important - all three of them are critical. It gives us the ability at deterrence.

  Marco Rubio

  Giving, Important, United States

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I like to move as much as possible and look at reflections, weird angles, subjects from airplanes and cranes. I feel sorry for the Jabba the Hut types who can't do this. Once an obese student told me that he wanted to be a war photographer. I said, "Really?" and then I shot him.

  Peter Menzel

  Sorry, War, Moving

  "Interview with Peter Menzel and Faith DAluisio". Interview with Philip Greenspun, www.photo.net. April, 2007.

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• I think participating in "Gishwhes" is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks.

  Misha Collins

  Thinking, Order, Shopping

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue?

  Edwidge Danticat

  Issues, People, Cuba

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.

  Paul Theroux

  Suits Of Armor, Lovers, Armor

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• That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.

  Jeff Bridges

  Film, Landmarks

  "Jeff Bridges On ‘R.I.P.D.,’ What’s Missing In Hollywood & His Reaction To ‘Airplane!’" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.

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• Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Stars, Loneliness, Book

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• The war of Armageddon has already started... God is using his many weapons. He is sending hurricanes so fast that [the blue-eyed devils] can't name them. He is drowning them in floods and causing their cars to crash and their airplanes cannot stay up in the sky. Their boats are sinking because Allah controls all things and he is using all methods to begin to wipe the devils off the planet, [and] the enemy is dying of diseases that have never been so deadly.

  Malcolm X

  War, Blue, Sky

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• If I'm on an airplane, a Kate Hudson movie is what I'm looking for. I'll sit there and I'll cry. I think it's the altitude or something like that.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Thinking, Cry, Kate

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

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• People who haven't ridden in trains don't know what they're missing. It's not like an airplane. You get to see the countryside, the beautiful country we live in. Unfortunately, our railroads have dwindled in passenger traffic.

  Ken Kelly

  Beautiful, Country, People

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• How many people, how many of us want to get on an airplane where you know only, only 20% of the pilots use the checklist? Why would you do that? I think we should be outraged because the technology is there, it's totally available. We're just not using it yet.

  William Davis

  Technology, Thinking, People

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• Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of the 20th century. It was how the Third Reich controlled its citizens, spread lies, and disseminated fear.

  Anthony Doerr

  Lying, Technology, Atoms

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Build high-speed, electrified trains over the most-traveled corridors. It'sreally hard to power carbon-free airplanes, but electrified trains are much easier. We'll be a half century behind the Japanese, but better late than never.

  Denis Hayes

  Half, Speed, Easier

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd like to jump out of an airplane, but I'm very scared of that. I will have to do it.

  Cedric Gervais

  Scared

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