Quotes About Airplanes

My airplanes are necessary machines, as necessary to this business as our meat slicers.

I love getting oxygen facials because I travel a lot. My skin gets pretty dry with all the airplanes.

As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about her. Everybody had something to say, some of it thoughtful, some of it poorly informed, some of it vividly obscene.

The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started photographing, I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to enter other lives. I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.

Glenn's record spoke for itself. He had downed four MiGs in combat, but, more importantly, he had brought back airplanes so badly shot up they were judged not to be flyable by other pilots. Not only had he brought them back and landed them safely, when he climbed from the cockpit the maintenance officers marked these planes as junk, to be cannibalized for parts only.

I think that I got committed to physics at the age of - oh, it must have been 1942 - ten, when most countries were at war and children were interested in airplanes and bombs and such things.

Show me a cultural relativist at thirty thousand feet and I'll show you a hypocrite. Airplanes built according to scientific principles work. They stay aloft, and they get you to a chosen destination. Airplanes built to tribal or mythological specifications, such as the dummy planes of the cargo cults in jungle clearings or the beeswaxed wings of Icarus, don't.

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice.

Cessation of hostilities. War is over. If any Japanese airplanes appear, shoot them down in a friendly way.

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.

Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission.

I don't intend to shoot at him but I might succeed in frightening him away if he attempts to reach us here. Haven't you ever seen a trainer work with lions? He carries a silly little pop-gun loaded with blank cartridges. With that and a kitchen chair be subdues the most ferocious of beasts. But you haven't a kitchen chair, she reminded him. No, he said, Government is always muddling things. I have always maintained that airplanes should be equipped with kitchen chairs.

That a few fanatics had flown airplanes down into all of that seemed less surprising to him than that legions more hadn't yet done the same. Half the world or more was already setting itself against all the complexity in one way or another, going to off to live in caves or gated communities, dreaming of a world with one god, one book, a world small enough to feel that one wasn't lost in it.

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.

Airplanes are a good place to concentrate because you get no emails, no phone calls.

I'm on a lot of airplanes. There are definitely times when I just vapor-lock. I'm on the plane, and I have so much to do, I just don't know what to do. It never lasts for very long. It might last for the flight.

I'm not much of a crier, actually. You know, I tend to cry and get sappy on planes.

There's more GPS in the phone in your pocket than on most of our 21st century airliners - that's frightening.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

by the end of the war American warplanes were dropping seventeen hundred tons of bombs a day on Japanese cities.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.