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Quotes About Aviators

I have long been of the mindset that aviators are like leather jackets - when they're perfect, they give you 'instant cool.' They're the Alexa Chung of sunglasses.
~ Emily Weiss
Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
dexterity and problem solving but also a rigorous psychological examination, which included a Rorschach test. Many aviators would later say that passing the exam was the toughest thing they'd ever faced in the Air Corps.
~ Stephan Talty
The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.
~ James Rosenquist
I dragged my gear down to the shore and saw the submariners, the way they stood aloof and silent, watching their pigboat with loving eyes. They are alone in the Navy. I admired the PT boys. And I often wondered how the aviators had the courage to go out day after day and I forgave their boasting. But the submariners! In the entire fleet they stand apart.
~ James Michener
E' una storia di bambini napoletani e di aviatori inglesi, dissi una storia gentile. V'è una certa gentilezza anche nella guerra. Ciò che la guerra ha di più orrendo disse Ilse è proprio quel che ha di gentile. Je n'aime pas voir sourire les monstres.
~ Curzio Malaparte
The track at that time was not laid out with much regard for the audience. Superimposed on the existing runways of Oakes Field, the former airport of Nassau, and making the most possible use of the already paved surfaces, it meandered off into backwaters previously known only to aviators, with little regard for the perspective of the cash customers.
~ Leslie Charteris
I went through different styles but realized Ray-Bans are the classics. You can't go wrong with them. I explore and cheat on them occasionally, but I always go back to the aviators.
~ Waris Ahluwalia
Burning aviators, clots of fire. The reeking night jar in our bedroom in Muswell Hill. Children skipping round me in a school yard, shouting taunts. My ship Lilith. London's winter cold and dark. The smell of ground sliced open in Regent's Park, my father's pale prisoner's face, his white hands on a table in the visiting hall. There it is. That was my war.
~ Peter Behrens
Everyone should have a hippie painter anarchist in their lives. It's the guys in silvered aviators with guns that you've got to be wary of.
~ John Sandford