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Quotes About Airplane

I was on the airplane after spending one of those nights of the damned that produces artists or serial killers. Sleep brought nightmares of violence and loss. Waking brought its own anxieties. Every noise in the old house assumed a sinister tone. Closing and locking the bedroom door provided no security to my imagination. Nor did keeping on every light. So I lay down, turned from side to side, got up, prowled, came back to bed, over and over.
~ Jon Talton
The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
~ Benny Hill
We fly to the town in the little private airplane, and then we have to get in cars and drive to the hotel and then drive to the gig. So, I want to do a tour where the performances will actually be at the small airports.
~ Walter Becker
I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
KierowcÄ… taksówki byÅ'a kobieta. DotknÄ…Å'em jej ramienia. -No? - zapytaÅ'a. -Przepraszam, ale chyba bÄ™dÄ™ rzygaÅ'. ObróciÅ'a siÄ™ i obrzuciÅ'a mnie spojrzeniem. Z jej dolnej wargi zwisaÅ' pet. -Panie, do cholery, to nie samolot. Nie zapewniamy torebek. -To co mi pani radzi? - zapytaÅ'em, pocÄ…c siÄ™ (...), samochód podskakiwaÅ' i trzÄ…sÅ'. -PoÅ'ykaj pan - oznajmiÅ'a i skoÅ"czyÅ'a dyskusjÄ™.
~ Graham Masterton
the crew Luis went with could hit the bull's-eye within a hundred meters. "Good enough to blow old Adolf to atoms," Luis said. "That's why we should keep the A-bomb name." "Atom bomb?" Karl asked. "Adolf bomb." •  ââ'¬Â¢  ââ'¬Â¢ The drop sequence was in good shape, so Luis could turn to getting the shock-wave detectors launched from the following airplane, and the auto-cameras.
~ Gregory Benford
My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
~ Ted Olson
I just want to be able to get on an airplane and enjoy myself in Disneyland, not sit there worrying about all these assassins.
~ Gordon Bethune
Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue. That way, no one knows what you're saying. Life goes on.
~ Maz Jobrani
Tatsächlich waren Aschenbecher auf Flugzeugtoiletten vorgeschrieben. Für den Fall, dass ein Passagier, der das Rauchverbot missachtete, wenigstens keinen Brand auslöste, weil er die Kippe mangels Aschenbecher im Papierabfall entsorgte.
~ Sebastian Fitzek
When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.
~ Fran Lebowitz
If you look at survivable crashes, it's rare that even half the emergency exits open," says Shanahan. "Plus, there's a lot of panic and confusion." Shanahan cites the example of a Delta crash in Dallas. "It should have been very survivable. There were very few traumatic injuries. But a lot of people were killed by the fire. They found them stacked up at the emergency exits. Couldn't get them open.
~ Mary Roach
The back of the seat in front of Richards was a revelation in itself. There was a pocket with a safety handbook in it. In case of air turbulence, fasten your belt. If the cabin loses pressure, pull down the air mask directly over your head. In case of engine trouble, the stewardess will give you further instructions. In case of sudden explosive death, hope you have enough dental fillings to insure identification.
~ Stephen King
sitting in the booth and I get the same result. Either his battery is dead—it happens fast on flights if you forget to put it on airplane mode or to turn it off—or his phone was off. Perhaps
~ Steve Martini
Surely, you must be joking," Aech said. "No, I am not joking. And don't call me Shirley.
~ Ernest Cline
It is the professional pilot's bounden duty to know the idiosyncrasies of each type (of airplane), for he must spend a large proportion of his active career exploiting its qualities and compensating for its faults. These secrets cannot be discovered in a ground school.
~ Ernest K. Gann
Despite Riley's efforts to protect his privacy on the ground, the Court said that he had no reasonable expectation of privacy from observation by a helicopter or a low-flying airplane.18
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
Sometimes I write captions on the in-flight magazines and then replace them in the seat pocket.
~ Shaun Tan
Not a very well-known fact, but on planes they always carry a trombone just in case there's a disaster and they need to keep morale up. All cabin crew - fully proficient in the trombone. And of course there's a double facility: if you ditch at sea, it can be used as a snorkel.
~ Bill Bailey
I called my wife up on the cell phone and said baby you aint gonna believe this, i go, we just hit a deer with the airplane. and there was a silence on the other end of the line followed by.. OH MY GOD.! were you on the ground? I said nope, santa was makin one last run..
~ Bill Engvall
When I get on a plane, I kiss the plane and I tap it three times. If I don't do it... I have to do it. One time I sat in my seat and I had to get back up to touch the plane.
~ Jana Kramer
Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
~ Vanessa Hudgens
There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.
~ Henry A. Kissinger
Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?"
~ Red Buttons