Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

We didn't want it to look like an airplane hangar.

Charles Bukowski

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

Bruce Springsteen

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

Dennis Miller

Some people like to travel by train because it combines the slowness of a car with the cramped public exposure of an airplane.

Aaron Spelling

I don't travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them.

Alan Shepard

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

Dhani Jones

Doing things out of the ordinary - out of the box - like jumping out of airplanes and landing in cities that you've never been to before, then finding your way through. That's the type of trip that excites me.

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

Chris Carter

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

Chloe Grace Moretz

When you're a pilot, and you know all the ways to survive an airplane crash and how low the chances are, you feel safer.

China Chow

The only times I'm consistent about praying are when I'm on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by.

Chick Hearn

Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.

Charlie Munger

Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.

Madeleine Albright

When somebody is flying airplanes into buildings and killing innocent people in the name of God, it makes you question why do they have that interpretation and somebody else has another interpretation, and how many people of Muslim faith would agree with that, and what are the different aspects of different people's religions that is so divisive, rather than being unifying?

Bill Maher

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

Bill Gates

If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.

Charles Lindbergh

I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.

Charles Lindbergh

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Charles Lindbergh

I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How detached the intimate things around me seem from the great world down below. How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground - seconds away - thousands of miles away. This air, stirring mildly around me. That air, rushing by with the speed of a tornado, an inch beyond. These minute details in my cockpit. The grandeur of the world outside. The nearness of death. The longness of life.

Charles Lindbergh

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

Bertrand Piccard

I am with the angels and just completely happy.

Bertrand Piccard

The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done it.

Richard Boucher

We want our airplane back, and we're going to make that point, and we would expect to get a response.

Carl Honore

Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

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.

Stephen Robinson

This is just like putting in an airplane engine,

Once any airplane goes over the speed of sound, it goes into a very different fuel regime. The operating costs become absurd. You would not pay a huge premium to fly this airplane.

Any time you have an airplane that can only fly to certain places in the world, it is less valuable than one that could be used anywhere.

Joan Allen

I'm not a huge risk taker... I'm not going to jump out of an airplane and parachute and things like that. That's not really me.

I'm looking forward to seeing it in a standing display, ... It's a very challenging airplane to fly, and the longer it's flown, the greater the risk. There's a reason why there are no original ones around. They all crashed.

Dick Cheney

It was a clear day, there were no weather problems, and then we saw the second airplane hit in real time,