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Quotes About Planes

Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today.
~ Gerard Arpey
When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives and those of their passengers.
~ Richard Dawkins
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
~ Alan Rickman
I love to travel, don't like the getting there 'planes' but love it when I arrive.
~ Danny O'Donoghue
Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.
~ Stewart O'Nan
I love traveling, but I hate planes.
~ Alex Pettyfer
I have to travel for my work, so the idea of getting on planes depresses me. They give me frequent-flyer points, and I think, 'I don't want them, because I'm sick of flying!'
~ Stephen Frears
I love to travel but hate traffic and planes. I wish I could just beam myself anywhere instantly.
~ Jordan Ladd
I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
~ Damon Galgut
Agriculture is one of the biggest causes of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Cars? Planes? Trains? Nope. Cow farts.
~ Zazie Beetz
The advantage of trains over planes is that there is much less hassle. You can get up from your seat and stroll about; you're more likely to meet people, and, particularly if you're making a long journey, you can actually see the terrain.
~ Michael Portillo
But that's just part of the story: the easy part. The difficult part is this. Jesus loves those terrorists. He loved them when they slit the throats of unarmed passengers, and He even loved them when they flew those planes into balls of fire causing thousands of His children to die in flames and blood and agony. And He continues to love them still as they roast in eternal hell and damnation.
~ Skip Coryell
I've spent half my life on planes. I have a lot of love for New Zealand, though. That is where the really arty, whimsical side of the family resided - in Hobbitland.
~ Alice Englert
American airmen, when they got to the front, mostly flew in borrowed, patched-up planes provided by the Allies, leaving them in the position of being sent into the most dangerous form of combat in modern times with next to no training in generally second-rate surplus planes against vastly more experienced enemies.
~ Bill Bryson
How can you study geometry and not believe in a god? A god of perfect points and planes, surrounded by angels and angles of all different degrees...
~ Taylor Mali
I was in New York on September 11 when those planes hit the World Trade Center. At the time, it seemed like it was a local thing. But three or four days later, by the time we drove across the country in the bus, we realized it wasn't a local thing. You could really feel the states become united. We became the United States of America.
~ John Madden
I don't watch television! At least not when I'm traveling. For some reason, I have always found it depressing to watch television in hotel rooms. I try to use that time, as well as time on planes, to write.
~ Stephen Hough
I'm a keen traveller, and I'm a nerd with planes and airports.
~ Michael Landes
On the whole Im a good companion, I like travelling, I dont mind airports or planes, I quite like it - theres always a sense of excitement.
~ Rick Stein
I am cursed with the inability to sleep on planes - ever.
~ Scott Wilson
I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Overhead, the clouds stretch across the sky like some monstrous spiderweb, dewed with stars. Tiny planes from the Mainland whir towards the yellow moon, only to become cobwebbed by cloud.
~ Karen Russell
I wondered if maybe this kind of thing happened all the time in Vegas -- cars full of late-arriving passengers screeching desperately across the runway, dropping off wild eyed Samoans clutching mysterious canvas bags who would sprint onto planes at the last possible second and then roar off into the sunrise.
~ Hunter S. Thompson