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Quotes About Airplanes

I've learned how to sleep on airplanes. When I'm taking a trans-Atlantic flight or going to a different continent, I will always read because reading puts me to sleep. When you watch a movie, you have all that light coming to your eyes, but with reading, I can't get through 15 or 20 pages.
~ John Isner
I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.
~ Herb Kelleher
I did a little bit of flying in high school, but I've just always been inspired and excited about airplanes.
~ Gregory H. Johnson
Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows I - I show pictures of my airplanes.
~ Ed Schultz
I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
~ Bam Margera
I have no artistic training - as you might have guessed from all the stick figures! - and there are a few things I have a really hard time drawing. I think the one that comes up the most is airplanes. Big airliners have such a weird wing shape, and I always have to redraw them 20 times before they're even recognizable.
~ Randall Munroe
I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.
~ Carroll Shelby
In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.
~ Niki Lauda
Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.
~ Andrea Hirata
Everybody prayed; everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights.
~ Sherman Alexie
I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.
~ John McPhee
I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.
~ Lisa Ling
I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.
~ Jon Foreman
Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
~ Claude Debussy
Damned planes. Too confining, too noisy—too fucking high in the air.
~ Shiloh Walker
We're going to design future cars the way people design airplanes. Except we have to use so much technology and ingenuity to reduce its cost and its form factor. We can't afford to have a jet plane. That would be great if could.
~ Jensen Huang
Teleportation would be the best because I live on airplanes. It would be super handy to be able to teleport around.
~ Tom Holland
We have to remember that Arafat was the one that started with hijacking airplanes already in 1968.
~ Ariel Sharon
When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.
~ Emily Oster
different products or innovations. For example, Boeing is a manufacturer of airplanes, but it is also a user of machine tools. If we were examining innovations developed by
~ Eric von Hippel
example, Boeing is a manufacturer of airplanes, but it is also a user of machine tools. If we were examining innovations developed by Boeing for the airplanes it sells, we would consider Boeing a manufacturer-innovator
~ Eric von Hippel
The logistics of the operation would have boggled most minds: the American contingent alone called for 6.6 million sets of rations, five thousand crated airplanes, five thousand carrier pigeons and accompanying pigeoneers, and a somewhat unambitious 144,000 condoms, fewer than two each.
~ Ben Macintyre
I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.
~ John Glenn
As I explain at some length in my book 'Energy Victory,' during World War II, the American strength in oil production was a decisive advantage for the Allies. Airplanes, ships, and tanks all ran on oil, and we controlled the supply.
~ Robert Zubrin