Plane Crashed Quotes

#1. I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.

Brad D. Smith

#2. Statistically, 2012 was the safest year to travel on a plane, in the history of aviation. Not one major passenger plane crashed. It's pretty amazing. And when you see them being taken apart and you see the work that goes into keeping those things in the air, you think, "Wow!"

Dallas Campbell

#3. The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

Alan Shepard

#4. I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

John Lithgow

#5. Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Alain De Botton

#6. No real endings, no final perfect happiness, no irredeemable despair. Meetings, yes, breakfasts and suppers.

Ann Leckie

#7. The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.

Tony Ardizzone

#8. 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

#9. He smells of secondhand cigar smoke and a brew of perfumes from his bachelor party, but it would be enticing foreplay to shower him fresh before sullying him anew.

Valentine Glass

#10. After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

Tom Hooper

#11. You used to be fly, but you crashed your plane.

One Be Lo

#12. Treason is a blow that comes unexpectedly. If you know your heart well, it will never be able to do that to you. Because you'll know its dreams and wishes, and will know how to deal with them.

Paulo Coelho

#13. It was reported that a plane had crashed into the forest one night.

J.W. Patterson

#14. The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Chogyam Trungpa

#15. But leanness is a methodology, not a goal. Making small changes to things that already exist might lead you to a local maximum, but it won't help you find the global maximum.

Peter Thiel

#16. A day, whether six or seven years ago or whether six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in now.

Meister Eckhart

#17. When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.

Abby Sunderland

#18. One October day in 1976, a Cuban airliner exploded over the Caribbean and crashed, killing all 73 people aboard. There should have been 74. I had a ticket on that flight, but changed my reservation at the last moment and flew to Havana on an earlier plane.

Stephen Kinzer

#19. I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#20. Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

Mignon McLaughlin

#21. Evey day, there is less of me. Today I am thoughts without words. Tomorrow I will be a body without thoughts. And so it goes.

Gabrielle Zevin

#22. Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

P. J. O'Rourke

#23. Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Edward De Bono