Airplane Quotes - Page 8

• What happens if a drone falls right next to her?

  Kanye West

  Fall, Drones, Next

  "I Fear Electrocution By Drone". www.tmz.com. August 6, 2014.

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• There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.

  Elon Musk

  Real, Opportunity, Aviation

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• Almost 60,000 average Americans had the courage to go out and charge those beaches on Normandy, to drop out of airplanes who knows where, and take on the battle for freedom. Average Americans, the very Americans that our government now and this president does not trust to make a decision on your health care plan. Those Americans risked everything so they could make that decision on their health care plan.

  Rick Santorum

  Beach, Government, Average

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'donnell, www.today.com. July 20, 2011.

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• I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.

  Bam Margera

  Games, Play, Missing

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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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• 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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• 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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• We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them.

  Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton

  Flying, Want, Aviation

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• Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world.

  L. Welch Pogue

  Ocean, Home, Sea

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• Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Miracle, Flying, Aviation

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• Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

  Jean Batten

  Travel, Ocean, Adventure

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• Tailor gang they rolling up those paper planes.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Rolling, Paper, Tailors

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• I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, Trying, Use

  "Collective amnesia: Matthews, Klein and Sullivan gush over Rice, forgetting history of misleading and false statements" by Rob Morlino, www.mediamatters.org. June 26, 2006.

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• This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories, our public utilities, gave us the telegraph, the telephone, the electric light, the automobile, the airplane, the radio and a higher standard of living for all the people than obtains anywhere else in the world. No great invention ever came from a government-owned industry.

  George B. Cortelyou

  Country, Light, Government

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• One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.

  Renee Fleming

  Junk, Magazines, Mail

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• If every UFO report could be convincingly credited to some conventional astronomical or atmospheric phenomenon, there would be no UFO mystery. It is precisely because so many UFO reports cannot logically be blamed on stars, planets, satellites, airplanes, balloons, etc., that a UFO mystery has existed since at least the mid-1940s.

  Don Berliner

  Stars, Would Be, Etc

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• Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance he'd have tried at least a ride. . . . We'll stick to the army on the ground and the battleships at sea.

  John W. Weeks

  Army, Sea, Air Power

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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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• 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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• 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'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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• Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you're going to fly an airplane. Most things are just the reverse from what people think. The higher you are the safer you are. The Earth down there, that, that-s your enemy because once you hit that, boy, you splatter.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Boys, Thinking, Ideas

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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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• 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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