Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

Beck

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

Jack Roush

When I was 60 years old, I had my horrible airplane wreck and I hadn't won a championship yet and, as I came back, I was sure I never would,

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.

Ashley Tisdale

I grew up on movies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun. You probably saw it more recently, but as a kid I grew up on them so I loved those kinds of movies.

Bertrand Russell

I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.

Johnny Depp

That's the interesting thing about becoming a father. Suddenly you universally have something in common with other people. I can be sitting next to a very straight, humorless businessman or stockbroker type on an airplane and we'll just start talking about kids. And that conversation last three or four hours.

We finally don't have to jump on an airplane and fly 3,000 miles.

Burt Rutan

I strongly feel that, if we are successful, our program will mark the beginning of a renaissance for manned space flight. This might even be similar to that wonderful time period between 1908 and 1912 when the world went from a total of ten airplane pilots to hundreds of airplane types and thousands of pilots in 39 countries.

It was a bit of a nail-biter because he passed the point at which we had predicted him to lift off by about 1,500 feet. As you see the airplane pass that point, of course you wonder when is he going to lift off?

Before moving to Utah, she raised dachshunds and Shetland ponies at the family home on Jackson Street. She arrived at Hill Field with two children, three dogs, a litter of puppies and two horses, for which she was able to commandeer a stable built from airplane packing crates.

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.

Chris Hadfield

I once made myself black out by pulling G too quickly while flying an F-18. Being unconscious in a single-seat airplane is not good. Fortunately, I woke up in time. I learned how to better plug-in my anti-G suit.

I know it's hard to pass these bills, but when he was sitting in jail in December and they were filling the airplane up with fuel to send him back to Germany, it took a miracle to get him out. So, you've got to believe there's a good chance this will become law.

Bill Gates

I'm in the same traffic as everybody else. I'm in the same airplane delay as everybody else. I sit in the same coach seat as everybody else.

I guess he's going to have to pay for airplane tickets

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.

Harrison Ford

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

Guy Kawasaki

Enchantment can be done with writing but I think enchantment is basically a prospective or an operating system for life. That you can enchant a person who is assigning your airplane seat, your hotel room, your waiter, your waitress.

Henny Youngman

I'll tell you how to beat the gambling in Las Vegas. When you get off the airplane, walk right into the propeller.

I put on my pants and drove like crazy to the airplane hangars, ... Then I looked up, and this fighter plane came a-roaring down, machine guns blazing, and I knew it sure as hell wasn't one of ours.

Fidel Castro

It would be a crime not to go to the appeal, ... The passports are ready and of course the airplane is ready.

I told them there were bad people on the airplane, and that those bad people had caused the airplane to crash. When that happened, Daddy and everyone on board died.

Alex Miller

Compared to other aviation services that may be landing on the snow we shut (the) airplane engine down so you get this natural quiet which is fundamental to the product.

Al Stewart

Team Macon continues to be upbeat. And we're doing our part to ensure the success of the C-17 program because it's the right airplane at the right time.

It's as simple as the photo ID that's presented when one tries to get on an airplane or when you're renting a video at the local video store.

Wes Craven

That's how this (movie) felt to me, a real director- actors' piece, with two people just sitting in airplane seats. It's gripping.

You stretch an airplane for a second time and the operating economics get almost unbelievable.

This is a critical milestone for the airplane as we make the transition from the development phase to the production phase. With most of the drawings complete, our suppliers and fabrication plants can begin manufacturing detailed parts.

A lot of our fires are in steep, narrow canyons, and that is not a safe place to put a big airplane like that. Because of our topography, it will probably not be used as much in California. We need something smaller and more nimble.

There were two witnesses who saw him go down, ... One guy was on the ground and the other was in an airplane flying right behind him.

There's a considerable amount of the airplane still left. The lighter-weight aluminum components did melt during the fire, but the structure is still there and the engines and the center wing section are still pretty well intact, so we think we can get some information from that.