Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglass North

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

Derek Kilmer

I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar.

Danica Patrick

If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.

Condoleezza Rice

I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile

Condoleezza Rice

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.

Dan Savage

I'm an agnosto-theist. I cross myself on airplanes. I pray when I'm sick. When you're sick I'll keep you in my thoughts; when I'm sick, I'm entreating a higher power.

David Zucker

Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian.

Dane Cook

I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

Dalton Trumbo

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.

David Letterman

Former President Bush, to celebrate his 80th birthday, jumped out of an airplane. And if you've seen the polls, you know he's not the only Bush in freefall.

Chuck Yeager

As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We got it above mach one, and once we got it above the speed of sound, then you have supersonic flow over the whole airplane, so you have no more shock waves on it that are causing buffeting...You really don't think about the outcome of any kind of a flight, whether it's combat, or any other kinds of flights, because you really have no control over it...

Chuck Yeager

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

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

Andy Rooney

You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.

Steve Earle

I love e-books. I can carry the complete works of William Shakespeare around with me all the time. Just think about that. Whether I'm on an airplane or wherever. Being able to have a library in your back pocket basically is something I support.

Jim Hall

To date, with over 90 percent of the airplane recovered, there is no physical evidence of a bomb or missile strike,

Hal Holbrook

I threw up on the airplane coming back from Tennessee, ... I don't know if it's a bug I caught on the plane or fear. It could be nerves. Till we get that first preview audience, we don't even know where our laughs are.

It is a complex airplane and someone would have to be an experienced pilot to fly that type of aircraft.

There is great progress in bringing the airplane into existence.

We're on the downward slope of the commercial airplane cycle. But given the rebound the company has been able to make in improving production efficiencies, they should be able to offset the decline in revenue as operating profits improve going forward.

Mary Roach

I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now I sit and watch old' Friends' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' episodes. Walking is good, but here again, technology has interfered. I like to listen to iTunes while I walk home. I guess I don't think anymore.

Kelly Ripa

Please get on an airplane or a horse, because it's pretty spectacular.

Chuck D.

He was in very bad weather and his airplane broke up.

Fortunately, the captain noticed the smaller plane out of the corner of his eye. He immediately pulled the airplane into a much steeper climb.

I would be on the first airplane out of here. We would have our operation in the U.S. up and running in 30 days.

Steven Hill

We believe the airplane will have wide appeal in this region.

The program is going along well we are on schedule. The very first test airplane is on the assembly line now.

We've been an airplane family since before I was born.

Brenda Laurel

The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.

Barack Obama

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

With ailerons, you have one aileron goes down and one goes up and what that does is redistribute the lift on the wing, ... The downgoing aileron increases the lift, the upgoing decreases the lift but the overall lift of the airplane is unchanged.

Jon Gruden

We'll have to regroup on the airplane (back to Tampa) and figure out how to get some of these errors solved because they are clearly hurting us.

Bertrand Piccard

I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment.