Airplane Life Quotes

#1. You can't just close your eyes and hope everything turns out all right. That's a fine strategy for jumping out of an airplane, but it's no way to conduct your life. In order to get anywhere you must first know where it is you want to go. Then you can figure out how to get there.

Mike Greenberg

#2. Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.

Giulio Douhet

#3. Like an airplane, an oven, or an elevator, Faebook is a tool that can make life's To-Dos fun and easy.

Carolyn Abram

#4. Drive down any road,

take a train or an airplane
across the world, leave
your old life behind,

die and be born again~
wherever you arrive
they'll be there first,

glossy and rowdy
and indistinguishable.
The deep muscle of the world.

Mary Oliver

#5. So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

Henry Rollins

#6. It's an amazing experience when you focus on the positive things in your life. Things start to change. You become happier. You see things differently. There might still be negative things there, but like an airplane flying overhead, they become the background noise of your mind.

Tom Giaquinto

#7. And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

Richard Bach

#8. She hated using airplane toilets. She was always afraid the plane would choose the exact moment she was most defenseless to crash, and she'd spend her final seconds of life spiraling toward earth with her bottom bare to the world.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#9. I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

Charles Bukowski

#10. Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Amelia Earhart

#11. Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

Wally Lamb

#12. The airplane has had a big impact on my life.

Jim Courier

#13. To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

Nevil Shute

#14. I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.

Gordon Bethune

#15. I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from airplanes the people are crying thank you, thank you, all down the air; and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks.

Annie Dillard

#16. Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

Paul Dickson

#17. A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

David Foster Wallace

#18. Why, in his life of frequent travel, had he never recognized the beauty of flight? The improbability of it. The sound of the engines faded, the airplane receding into blue until it was folded into silence and became a far-distant dot in the sky.

Emily St. John Mandel

#19. Moderate aspirations lead to a contended life. I don't have to buy the airplane and I can't drive the tank!!

Mahesh Babu

#20. How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#21. Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.

James Lipton

#22. I was 19 when I first auditioned for 'American Idol.' I'd never been on an airplane; I'd never been outside of my hometown, except to go to Myrtle Beach. I'm 22 now. I'm learning a lot about life, and it's all in front of the cameras.

Kellie Pickler

#23. Enchantment can be done with writing but I think enchantment is basically a prospective or an operating system for life. That you can enchant a person who is assigning your airplane seat, your hotel room, your waiter, your waitress.

Guy Kawasaki

#24. I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.

Del Shannon

#25. When everything seems to be going wrong with you, you must remember the airplane takes off against the wind

Sunday Adelaja

#26. In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.

Linus Roache

#27. On an airplane, you are always told to put on your own oxygen mask first. The same way in life, you need to take care of your health first. If you are not happy and healthy, you cannot make anyone else happy and healthy.

Rajashree Choudhury

#28. If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.

Igor Sikorsky

#29. If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.

Igor Sikorsky

#30. [Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let's buy it what a bargain!

Anne Carson

#31. I don't sit down with a goal of writing. I read books or magazines. I watch TV. I go to the doctor. I get on airplanes. I live a normal life and sometimes I'll notice something or read things or experience things.

Brian Regan