Famous Quotes & Sayings

The airplane will go down, and eventually you will lose steering,

Jim Hall

The airplane's out-of-trim condition became worse as the crew attempted to diagnose or correct the problem, ... The crew had difficulty controlling the airplane's tendency to pitch nose down. The airplane descended, but the crew was able to (stop) the descent.

Jim Courier

The airplane has had a bog impact on my life.

It's in the top five costs. Fuel is No. 1, then labor, then airplane ownership, and then distribution.

It's an airplane field, it's not baseball dimensions.

There's two reasons why this happened, ... Either the (National Guard) pilots screwed up or they were playing games with our airplane and they got caught.

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.

It's not as if the entire airplane is for sale.

Tom Anderson

It's not as good as we'd desire. But for an airplane that's 4 months old, it's not too bad.

Everybody is horrified at what they can do, but the truth is the research quantities we're studying are quite modest. And if the building they're in got hit by a bomb or an airplane or a tornado or something like that.

It's like an airplane crash it takes awhile to put all the pieces together and figure out what happened.

It's a recipe for disaster because the airplane is different enough that it really does require special training,

The U.S. has not been big in new coaches - the U.S. is really behind Europe. It's the great passenger car and airplane that dominate American travel, and trains and buses have been much more secondary.

Mohamed Atta

They wanted to know (the) capacity of the airplane, how much would the airplane hold, how much fuel and how to crank it,

They were traveling on an airplane and left it on the plane with a bunch of other CDs, including audio CDs. It may very well be in a trash can.

Dick Cheney

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

It's another opportunity for us to turn the airplane faster. Ultimately, what we get is more productivity out of the airplane. Anything we can do to get more out of that multimillion-dollar asset . . . is a good thing to us.

It's like testing a new airplane or car. Before you go off joyriding with it, you want to make sure everything works.

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.

Sherri Shepherd

My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.

Nevil Shute

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

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.

Ted Olson

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.

Michael P. Anderson

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

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.

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.

Masaharu Morimoto

I dont eat anything on an airplane.

Paul Greengrass

The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

Juan Williams

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.