Airplane Quotes - Page 3

• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wise, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Coffee, Smell, Cabins

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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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• Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Witty, Fear

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

  Paul Getty

  Couple, Rushing, People

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• The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, Science, Flying

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• The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

  Wendell Willkie

  Nature, Travel, Ocean

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• Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Impossible, Aviation, Achieve

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• Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Men, Sea, Sky

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

  Wendell Willkie

  Flying, World, Air Travel

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• Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.

  Barbara Walters

  Clouds, Rainbow, Literature

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• The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Faith, Birds Wings

  "The Little White Bird". Book by James M. Barrie, 1902.

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• It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Education, Tape

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• Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Military, Government, Land

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• Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

  Amelia Earhart

  Women, Sisterhood, History

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• Superman don't need no seat belt.

  Muhammad Ali

  Greatness, Needs, Belts

  Twitter post from Mar 14, 2011

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• I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Trying, Costumes, Watches

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• It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.

  Dave Reichert

  Taken, Overcoming, Doe

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• Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

  Soong May-ling

  Distance, Government, Achievement

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• I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

  Michael P. Anderson

  Pilots, Air Force, Aviation

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• Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings.

  Wolfgang Langewiesche

  Wings, Ideas, Smell

  Wolfgang Langewiesche (1994). “Stick & Rudder: 50th Anniversary Edition”, McGraw-Hill

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• Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

  Socrates

  Men, Flying, Atmosphere

  Quoted in Brugioni, From Balloons to Blackbirds (1993).

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• I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, Flying, Mind

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• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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