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Quotes About Aeroplane

After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that it should happen in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life.
~ Nevil Shute
We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.
~ George Orwell
The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.
~ Walter Alexander Raleigh
I really liked 'Heist,' and that seems to be a popular favourite, but I think my personal favourite was 'Hero at 30,000 ft,' about the guy who ended up landing the aeroplane.
~ Derren Brown
Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.
~ Nevil Shute
There was a regulation that if they remained at large in enemy territory for some weeks longer, they could be repatriated to the United States. It was for this that they had made a hazardous parachute jump and destroyed an expensive, very slightly damaged aeroplane.
~ Evelyn Waugh
What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.
~ Orlando Bloom
In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
~ Forrest Bird
Girls like more backbencher than topper but act to love only one who can fly her often on the aeroplane or chopper.
~ Anuj Somany
There were several appeals, but I ruined it all by escaping after three years inside. I was being transported to court and we stopped to use the rest room. There were two sheriffs and I managed to get away. I out-ran a helicopter, got on the aeroplane and went to Florida.
~ Nick Yarris
THE DOORYARD OF NAIROBI falls into the Athi Plains. One night I stood there and watched an aeroplane invade the stronghold of the stars. It flew high; it blotted some of them out; it trembled their flames like a hand swept over a company of candles. The drumming of the engines was as far away as the drumming of a tom-tom. Unlike a tom-tom, it changed its sound; it came closer until it filled the sky with a boastful song. There
~ Beryl Markham
I love fashion magazines and style magazines and when I'm travelling on an aeroplane I always have a big bag slung over my shoulder, which is full of magazines.
~ Arlene Phillips
I whispered to Ossie that I wanted to see the register for Death's aeroplane. Who was boarding the plane in such a stupid order? The
~ Karen Russell
in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.
~ Virginia Woolf
Over the mountain forest outside of Sachrang, in the last days of the War, an aeroplane dropped a metal device that was visible in the treetops by its flag. We children were certain the flag was wandering from tree to tree, that the mysterious device was moving forward. During the night some men went off and, when they returned at daybreak, they refused to divulge information concerning what they'd found.
~ Werner Herzog
I was at that level of inebriation - that hinge, that crux, that ridge - where you can decide to proceed or step back. Red warning lights were flashing on the control panel but the aeroplane was not yet in a screaming death-dive.
~ William Boyd
It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.
~ Christopher Bram
It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.
~ Tommy Cooper
I've been put under 8.5G in a stunt aeroplane. I felt all right. Well, I lost my vision, but I was still conscious.
~ Guy Martin
The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!
~ Sam Hughes
It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.
~ Tommy Cooper
As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.
~ J. F. C. Fuller
Cos it's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'Aaaaaagghhh!!' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.
~ Tommy Cooper