Planes Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

  Alan Rickman

  Two, England, Inches

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• It was the most romantic plane ever made.

  Ken Follett

  Romantic, Made, Romantic Love

  Ken Follett (2011). “Night Over Water”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

  Keren Ann

  Home, Happens, Train

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• On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

  Frederick Soddy

  Ignorance, Adversaries, Knowledge And Ignorance

  Frederick Soddy's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1922.

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• The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Sodium, Vapour, Rotation

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• I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

  Orlando Bloom

  Girl, Asking, Tickets

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• When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

  Tom Glazer

  Exercise, Swimming, Thinking

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• A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Elephants, Camels, Jet Planes

  "A Hero for Our Time". Book by Ralph G Martin, 1983.

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• I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

  Ed O'Neill

  New York, Cities, People

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• Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

  Chuck Jones

  Two, Doe, Three

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• When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

  Theodore White

  Song, Night, Soldier

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• Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

  Barbara Walters

  Church, Literature, Superstitions

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• Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building.

  Mercer Reynolds

  Children, White, Two

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• It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Like You, Shots, Adrenaline

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• Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Perception, Kingdoms, Kind

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.194, Penguin

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• If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.

  Joel Osteen

  Jesus, Media, Riding

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• In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

  Bridget Riley

  Space, Painting, Wanted

  Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

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• I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.

  Ted Olson

  Airplane, Being True, Wanted

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• Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.

  Reba McEntire

  Mad, Reason, Crash

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane.

  Steve Largent

  Data, People, Wireless

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• She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

  Ted Olson

  Air, Hours, Said

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• I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Pain, Perspective, Important

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.166, Routledge

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• Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

  Sheena Easton

  Kids, Kind, Aeroplanes

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