Airplane Quotes - Page 5

• There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people and so many airplanes. This is an extraordinary airport. . . it could be classed as one of the wonders of the modern world.

  John F. Kennedy

  Airports, People, World

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• I like how time goes on set. It's almost like time on an airplane or something where people are together. It's a different, very trippy kind of time, I find, because you're together in imaginary time where you're out of time. You're called upon to be present and honor what can happen in the moment. And the whole day can go like that. The whole day can be a kind of meditation.

  Jeff Goldblum

  People, Meditation, Honor

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

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• Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.

  Walter Cunningham

  Dream, Men, Aviation

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• It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker with it. But if your airplane breaks down, you can't sit on a convenient cloud and tinker with that!

  Katherine Stinson

  Clouds, Aviation, Driving

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• An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air.

  Alan Mulally

  Moving, Up In The Air, Two

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• Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Dream, Reality, College

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.

  William Langewiesche

  Simple, Hunting, Clouds

  William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon

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• He moves not through distance, but through the ranges of satisfaction that come from hauling himself up into the air with complete and utter control; from knowing himself and knowing his airplane so well that he can come somewhere close to touching, in his own special and solitary way, that thing that is called perfection.

  Richard Bach

  Distance, Moving, Knowing

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.209, Dell

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• I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Night, Jumping, Pilots

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• I was always making things. I made model airplanes and did a number of hands-on activities. I liked creating in some form or another, not realizing what it was all about.

  Paul Smith

  Creating, Numbers, Hands

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• Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not like that's seeped into the culture at large, that comics are not just for kids.

  Daniel Clowes

  Kids, Average, Culture

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die.

  Richard Bach

  Pride, Aviation, I've Learned

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• Remember, you fly an airplane with you head, not your hands and feet.

  Bevo Howard

  Remember You, Remembers You, Hands

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• There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a distinct understanding at the very start as to who is the boss.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Two, Boss, Understanding

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments . . . .At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong.

  Wolfgang Langewiesche

  Art, Strong, Cutting

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• Whales, like elephants, are so social and intelligent. This hurts me to think of them being transported, put in noisy airplanes, and brought to a horrible concrete pen when they're supposed to be out in the sea.

  Jane Goodall

  Hurt, Intelligent, Thinking

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• For me the two biggest issues are climate change and animal welfare/animal agriculture. And oddly enough animal agriculture is such a contributor to climate change. According to the United Nations, 25% of climate change comes from animal agriculture, so every car, bus, boat, truck, airplane combined has less CO2 and methane emissions than animal agriculture.

  Moby

  Animal, Two, Agriculture

  "Climate Champions speak out: Moby on Climate Change". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Ironically the very energy, the very basis of how we know what we know, has been reliant on having an energy source [necessary] to build rockets to go to the moon and Mars, to support airplanes that fly, and satellites to give us our communication.

  Sylvia Earle

  Communication, Moon, Giving

  "Her Majesty Of The Deep Blue Sea: An Interview With Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Flying, Air Power, Pilots

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• Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

  Giulio Douhet

  Independence, Excellence, Air Power

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.32, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Thats why we are inconveniencing air traffickers, to make sure nobody is carrying weapons on airplanes.

  George W. Bush

  Air, Weapons

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• I thought there were the day before when Hillary Clinton coughed for about, I don't know, 15 minutes and then coughed on the airplane and then spit something up. I don't know what's wrong with her but they kind of hide her .

  Rudy Giuliani

  Kind, Clinton, Minutes

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!

  Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

  Airports, Land, Flying

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• I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

  Michael Trucco

  Birthday, Interest, Confronting

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• Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss.

  Jacques Charles

  Perfect, Flying, Earth

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