Quotes About Airplanes

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

He chuckled. "All I can see is that goddamn necklace. Being seen with you could jeopardize my career. Do you have anything illegal in that bag?" "Never," I said. "A man can't travel around on airplanes wearing a Condor Legion neck-piece unless he's totally clean. I'm not even armed … This whole situation makes me feel nervous and weird and thirsty." I lifted my sunglasses to look for the bar, but the light was too harsh.

I had a great life at Boeing. I'd been there for 37 years and contributed to all the Boeing airplanes as a designer: the 707, 727, 37, 47, 57, 67 and 'triple 7' and the 87.

When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

With respect to Iraq, I did favour the continuity of American forces to work with the new Maliki government. They had enormous needs for intelligence, for training on everything from airplanes to more sophisticated ground equipment and the like.

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

Do you know people cry on airplanes more than anywhere else?" "I didn't know it was a fact," she answered, "but I might have suspected as much from my years up here." "Yeah, you'd probably know better than me. But on a plane, you're often alone. Or you're stressed. Or you've just had some meaningful experience. Movies and books will really get to you at thirty-five thousand feet.

Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

As she began to doze, she wondered if when you rode in airplanes, love, even old impossible love, sent hearts tumbling end over end.

I wonder how many European passengers know that the aviation authorities say that passenger and crew health on board public transport airplanes is of no concern to them?

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.

1954. Smog prevents airplanes from landing and ships from docking for three days.

Overhead in the Paris sky Two airplanes fought it out one day And one of them was my whole youth The other was my days to come

Unfortunately, I've got airplanes that I can't even afford to use today that are sitting there. I'm still paying insurance on them; I'm still paying payments.

From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.

Airplanes are like women - pick what you like and try to get it away from the guy who has it, then dress it out to the limit of your wallet and taste.

I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.

The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

On airplanes, strangers confide in me the most deepest, darkest secrets. And I think they think I'll understand. And I generally do understand.

The similarities between commercial airplanes and automobiles are striking. It's all about safe and efficient transportation using the latest technology and the best fuel efficiency.

As a young boy, I had the usual hobbies - sports, baseball cards, model airplanes and trains. But I always had a distinct fascination with trains.

Bigger airplanes, with two aisles instead of one, provide a better experience overall, and I think it's more comfortable.