Planes Quotes

• I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Humor, Wicked World, Politician

  The Observer, June 17, 1960.

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• My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

  Graham Greene

  Typewriters, Hands, Two

  International Herald Tribune, October 07, 1977.

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• There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

  Richard Branson

  Life, People, Balance

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• I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Atheist, Thinking

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• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  Abraham Maslow

  Determination, Life And Love, Ocean

  "A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective". Book by Eric Shiraev (p. 431),

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• I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff.

  Catherine Bell

  Jumping, Kickboxing, Stuff

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

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• The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.

  Stuart Symington

  Believe, Gun, Experts

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• About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.

  Ernie Pyle

  Two, Bees, Would Be

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Birthday, Women

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

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• In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

  Jay Chiat

  Moon, Vacation, Economy

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

  Roald Dahl

  Flames, Bravery, Soldier

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• So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.

  Martin Feldstein

  Thinking, Judgement, Sound

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• Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.

  Harrison Ford

  Fun, Toys, Serious

  "Harrison Ford Heads To Congress To Talk About Planes, Yet Again" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. March 19, 2013.

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• All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

  Kate Moss

  Home, Scary, Attention

  "Kate Moss: Enduring Style". Interview with Madeline Rudin, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 21, 2014.

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• The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

  Alan Shepard

  Feet, Four, Firsts

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• My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Husband, Father, Teenager

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• Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

  Bo Jackson

  Soccer, Sports, Baseball

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• I don't know if you'll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.

  Jason Biggs

  Jumping, Knows, Ifs

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• Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament

  Monica Seles

  Christmas, Sports, Travel

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• I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, House, Rooms

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• We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

  Johannes Stark

  Moving, Axes, Ions

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• Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.

  Elton Gallegly

  Boards, Needs, Use

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• Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

  Lawrence Summers

  Jet Planes, Kind, Problem

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• Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Stars, Light, Color

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