Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.

P.M. Forni

Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others (or that of the community) is one of the ways in which we respect others. It is an essential part of being considerate guests, no matter where we are: in an airplane, in a friend's home, in a movie theater, in a doctor's office, in a public library, or in a public square.

Mary Roach

Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.

Muhammad Ali

Superman don't need no seat belt.

Lucinda Franks

In the railroads, some people read clearly printed departure signs and then proceed to ask several times what they say. On airplanes, they demand things they know they cannot have. In their cars, they load up, drive away and then suddenly realize they don't know where they're going.

Method Man

Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

Mark Kennedy

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

Neil Armstrong

Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.

Neil Armstrong

I tell you, we're going to be busy for a minute.

Mitt Romney

Mr. President, you’re entitled as a president to your own airplane, and to your own house, but not to your own facts.

Leonardo da Vinci

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Paul Reubens

I'd love to work with Francis Ford Coppola. I met Coppola on an airplane.

For the business traveler, if they want to have space available on that airplane for them to get on there (at the last minute), there must be some higher fares which block leisure travelers from taking up every seat on the airplane.

Harry Reasoner

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

Harry Reasoner

This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.

Harry Reasoner

The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.

J. Maarten Troost

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

Ken Kesey

The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.

Kristen Bell

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant

Kevin Plank

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

Michael Trucco

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

Sissy Spacek

Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

Socrates

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

Nolan Bushnell

Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.

Misha Collins

I think participating in GISHWHES is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my mind from drifting: What's the largest piece of this airplane that could crash into the World Trade Center, explode out the other side, and survive intact? The landing gear? My computer battery? My belt buckle? My wedding ring?

Neil Gaiman

I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.

John Waters

It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.

Sheryl Crow

I would never put a video in front of my kid. While I don't use videos as a babysitter, they have come in handy on the airplane.

Niki Lauda

I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.

Niki Lauda

In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.

Matt Taibbi

Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.