Aviation Quotes - Page 2

• Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Adventure, Discovery, Flying

  ANNE MORROW lINDBERGH (1973). “HOUR OF GOLD HOUR OF LEAD”

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• At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

  Avi Arad

  Book, Comic, Daredevil

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• You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.

  Janet Napolitano

  Jobs, Safety, Focus

  "Secretary Napolitano's Remarks to the National Press Club". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 16, 2010.

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• I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Wish, Done

  Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”

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• A fool and his money are soon partying.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Party

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• But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

  Avi Arad

  Dvds, Office, Community

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. February 10, 2004.

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• Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.

  Avi Arad

  Jobs, Book, Kids

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 10, 2004.

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• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people have been I have thought back to what every flyer knows. That there is this special world in which we dwell that's not marked by boundaries, it's not a map. We're not hedged about with walls and desks. So often in an office the very worst thing that can happen is you could drop your pencil. Out there's a reminder that are a lot worse things, and a lot greater rewards.

  Richard Bach

  Wall, Order, Office

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• I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

  Chuck Yeager

  Airplane, Flying, Dying

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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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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• No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Air, Flying, Inspire

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• You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

  Amelia Earhart

  Airplane, Sky, Tree

  "How Aerial Photography Changes A Photographer’s Perspective" by Heather Hummel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2014.

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• Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

  Richard Bach

  Airplane, Men, Flying

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

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• Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket.

  Bevo Howard

  Pockets, Pilots, Hips

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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

  Airplane, Men, Sea

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

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• Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee.

  William K. Kershner

  Earth, Thee, Great Aviation

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

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, Airplane, Flying

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• If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Problem, Ifs

  "Baseball's Greatest Quotes". Book by Paul Dickson, 1991.

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• The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

  Mark Russell

  Inspirational, Hilarious, Funny Life

  "Frequent Flyer Humor and One-Upmanship". Book by George W. Stewart, Dog Ear Publishing, p. 12, 2011.

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• We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

  Richard Bach

  Ignorance, Skills, Flying

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• A fool and his money are soon married.

  Carolyn Wells

  Money, Italian, Fool

  Carolyn Wells (1912). “The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady”

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• Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!

  Adam Savage

  Law, Ideas, Pilots

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• In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

  Mary Garden

  Skills, Australia, Flying

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• Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!

  Richard Bach

  Ignorance, Fishing, Skills

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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