Top Airplane Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Airplane quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Igor Sikorsky
Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.
- Igor Sikorsky
Collection: Airplane
Image of Bernhard Schlink
When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
- Bernhard Schlink
Collection: Airplane
Image of Matthew Modine
Imagine if somebody were to really sit down with Osama bin Ladin and say, 'Listen man, what is it that you're so angry at me about that you're willing to have people strap bombs to themselves, or get inside of airplanes and fly them into buildings?' That would be the miracle if we can get, sit down and talk to our enemies and find a way for them to hear us.
- Matthew Modine
Collection: Airplane
Image of Jeffrey R. Immelt
I was Chairman for two days. I had an airplane with my engines, hit a building I insured, was covered by a network I owned and I still have to increase earnings by 11 percent.
- Jeffrey R. Immelt
Collection: Airplane
Image of Jack Spicer
The poet is stepping out of the airplane.
- Jack Spicer
Collection: Airplane
Image of Masaharu Morimoto
I dont eat anything on an airplane.
- Masaharu Morimoto
Collection: Airplane
Image of J. Maarten Troost
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.
- J. Maarten Troost
Collection: Airplane
Image of Robert Stack
Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been!
- Robert Stack
Collection: Airplane
Image of Danica Patrick
If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.
- Danica Patrick
Collection: Airplane
Image of Dalton Trumbo
Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you're going to fly an airplane. Most things are just the reverse from what people think. The higher you are the safer you are. The Earth down there, that, that-s your enemy because once you hit that, boy, you splatter.
- Dalton Trumbo
Collection: Airplane
Image of Steve Toltz
I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.
- Steve Toltz
Collection: Airplane
Image of David Neeleman
One of the constraints on the U.S. business is the pilot shortage. There's not an abundance of pilots. There may be an abundance of cheap fuel and airplanes. There probably isn't an abundance of gates at popular airports, either.
- David Neeleman
Collection: Airplane
Image of Sally Mann
It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.
- Sally Mann
Collection: Airplane
Image of Mary Roach
Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.
- Mary Roach
Collection: Airplane
Image of Gordon Bethune
Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?
- Gordon Bethune
Collection: Airplane
Image of Gordon Bethune
I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares, all touchy-feely ... all of them are losers. Most of these guys are smoking ragweed.
- Gordon Bethune
Collection: Airplane
Image of Harry Reasoner
The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.
- Harry Reasoner
Collection: Airplane
Image of Harry Reasoner
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.
- Harry Reasoner
Collection: Airplane
Image of Harry Reasoner
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly
- Harry Reasoner
Collection: Airplane
Image of Jackson Pollock
It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age find its own technique.
- Jackson Pollock
Collection: Airplane
Image of Peter Lerangis
Don't get me started on the little airplane name badges," Natalie grumbled.
- Peter Lerangis
Collection: Airplane
Image of Frank Borman
There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of the Space Shuttle. . . . You don't put parachutes on airliners because the margin of safety is built into the machine. The 727 airplanes we fly are proven vehicles with levels of safety and redundancy built in. The shuttle is a hand-made piece of experimental gear.
- Frank Borman
Collection: Airplane
Image of Lori Lansens
I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to the beguiling moon. I’ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. I’ve never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or a solo walk. I’ve never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things I’ve never done, but oh, how I’ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, I’d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially.
- Lori Lansens
Collection: Airplane
Image of Rob Thurman
At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselves and the fungus in the bathroom was one day away from evolving into sentient life. I folded the note into an airplane and sailed it across the room. It ended up perched jauntily on top of the ancient television. It looked good there and I left it as a tribute to freedom-loving fungi everywhere.
- Rob Thurman
Collection: Airplane
Image of Alan Shepard
Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.
- Alan Shepard
Collection: Airplane
Image of Wendell Willkie
There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
- Wendell Willkie
Collection: Airplane
Image of Nevil Shute
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
- Nevil Shute
Collection: Airplane
Image of Ross Perot
Keep in mind our Constitution predates the Industrial Revolution. Our founders did not know about electricity, the train, telephones, radio, television, automobiles, airplanes, rockets, nuclear weapons, satellites, or space exploration. There's a lot they didn't know about. It would be interesting to see what kind of document they'd draft today. Just keeping it frozen in time won't hack it.
- Ross Perot
Collection: Airplane
Image of Kristen Bell
I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get "Okaaaaaay, honey." I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.
- Kristen Bell
Collection: Airplane
Image of Janice Hahn
I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether its in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue.
- Janice Hahn
Collection: Airplane
Image of Ernest K. Gann
There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a distinct understanding at the very start as to who is the boss.
- Ernest K. Gann
Collection: Airplane
Image of Ernest K. Gann
The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air.
- Ernest K. Gann
Collection: Airplane
Image of Henry Petroski
Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
- Henry Petroski
Collection: Airplane
Image of Robert Crippen
The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait.
- Robert Crippen
Collection: Airplane
Image of Robert Crippen
This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.
- Robert Crippen
Collection: Airplane
Image of Hugh Shelton
I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.
- Hugh Shelton
Collection: Airplane
Image of Thom Hartmann
Because nitrous oxide [released by nitrate-fertilised soil] is 296 times stronger than CO₂ at global warming and methane [cow farts] is about 26 times as potent as CO₂, the combined greenhouse effect of our livestock worldwide is greater than the sum total of all the cars, trains, busses, trucks, ships, airplanes and jets.
- Thom Hartmann
Collection: Airplane
Image of Gordon Cooper
I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster.
- Gordon Cooper
Collection: Airplane
Image of Gordon Cooper
I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its wings. It's a magical feeling to climb toward the heavens, seeing objects and people on the ground grow smaller and more insignificant. You have left that world beneath you. You are inside the sky.
- Gordon Cooper
Collection: Airplane
Image of Paul MacCready
Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.
- Paul MacCready
Collection: Airplane
Image of Aaron Spelling
I don't travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them.
- Aaron Spelling
Collection: Airplane
Image of Jim Lovell
I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
- Jim Lovell
Collection: Airplane
Image of Jim Lovell
The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.
- Jim Lovell
Collection: Airplane
Image of Erich Warsitz
One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.
- Erich Warsitz
Collection: Airplane
Image of Francois Laurent d'Arlandes
Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly but already we had passed out of sight of La Muette. Astonished I cast a glance towards the river. I perceived the confluence of the Oise. And naming the principal bends of the river by the places nearest them, I cried, "Passy, St. Germain, St. Denis, Sevres!"
- Francois Laurent d'Arlandes
Collection: Airplane
Image of Alvin M. Johnston
She flew like a bird, only faster.
- Alvin M. Johnston
Collection: Airplane
Image of Amanda Bynes
To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant.
- Amanda Bynes
Collection: Airplane
Image of Neal Cassady
Billboards, billboards, drink this, eat that, use all manner of things, everyone, the best, the cheapest, the purest and most satisfying of all their available counterparts. Red lights flicker on every horizon, airplanes beware; cars flash by, more lights. Workers repair the gas main. Signs, signs, lights, lights, streets, streets.
- Neal Cassady
Collection: Airplane
Image of Wendy Kaminer
I do what I do because I have a compulsion to hold forth. I don't spend a lot of time, if any, thinking about the effect my work is going to have on the world. And I have an abiding mistrust of people who think that they're going to change the world. I think that people who think that they're going to change the world are the kind of people who put bombs on airplanes.
- Wendy Kaminer
Collection: Airplane
Image of William Anders
Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just a lot of bumps and holes.
- William Anders
Collection: Airplane