Top 100 Quotes About Airplanes
#1. The very concept of imitation is suspect to begin with (if children are general imitators, why don't they imitate their parents' habit of sitting quietly in airplanes?),
Steven Pinker
#2. I have got airplanes, zeppelins and apparatus.
Drew Ali
#3. This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'
Jack White
#4. You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.
John Oates
#6. Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.
Andrea Hirata
#8. I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time - I cram it into wherever it will fit.
Kevin Patterson
#9. I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
Bam Margera
#10. I'm going to cover the whole world like it was a neighborhood, and in airplanes and raing cars, not on foot!
Elsa Morante
#11. 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
#12. In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him.
Scott Adams
#13. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.
George W. Bush
#14. [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
#15. It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.
Brian R. Norris
#16. Build high-speed, electrified trains over the most-traveled corridors. It'sreally hard to power carbon-free airplanes, but electrified trains are much easier. We'll be a half century behind the Japanese, but better late than never.
Denis Hayes
#17. I turned off my tape-recorder and just sat looking at him for a moment, this strange time-traveller from the year 1890 or so, who remembered when there were no cars, no electric lights, no airplanes, no state of Arizona.
Stephen King
#18. People who design machines and airplanes {or buildings}, no matter how much they believe that what they do is good, the winds of time eventually turn them into tools of industrial civilization. They're cursed dreams. Animation, too. Beautiful yet cursed dreams.
Hayao Miyazaki
#19. While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat.
Alfred H. Barr Jr.
#20. I write to get ideas out of my head
Bobbi Kay
#21. The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).
Bryan Q. Miller
#22. If I were king of the world, babies born in airplanes, balloons and blimps would, instead of choosing to be German, Maldivian or American, all get special heavenly blue passports with a stork on the cover labeled 'Sky Baby' - and they'd be allowed to come and go anywhere they please.
Robert Krulwich
#23. Because I hate the ocean, theme parks and airplanes, talking with strangers, waiting in line. I'm through with these pills that make me sit still, are you feeling fine? Yes, I feel just fine.
Aurelien Budynek
#24. She says that in Chicago she used to wish on airplanes because there were far more of those floating around in the night sky than stars. There
Mary Kubica
#25. Flying radio-controlled airplanes is the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's a fascinating hobby.
Tyler Perry
#26. It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.
Chuck Palahniuk
#27. Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
Adolf Galland
#28. I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.
Neil Gaiman
#29. How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.
Peter Gleick
#30. They didn't let you bring marijuana on airplanes, apparently, as hard as that was to believe.
Allie Burke
#31. As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends.
Arthur Kornberg
#32. Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.
Alan Shepard
#33. Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.
Jacob M. Appel
#34. I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.
Bill Nye
#35. Indian nationalists and the government seem to believe that they can fortify their idea of a resurgent India with a combination of bullying and Boeing airplanes. But they don't understand the subversive strength of warm boiled eggs.
Arundhati Roy
#36. In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.
Mark Burnett
#37. I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do.
Mandy Moore
#38. Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?
Steven Wright
#39. I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
Burt Rutan
#40. Maybe he really did have a very rich secret life," I suggested.
"Nah."
"Nah," sneered the bartender. "He was just one of those kids who made model airplanes and jerked off all the time.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#41. When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.
Emily Oster
#42. UFO's are as real as the airplanes flying overhead.
Paul Hellyer
#43. POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENT
FACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departure
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#44. To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the bridge of any ship while it is attacked by airplanes.
Newton D. Baker
#45. There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
Erica Jong
#46. It seems quixotic today, with jet airplanes and overdoses of Nembutal, that a man would go through a war for something so insignificant as his state.
Harper Lee
#47. I was always making things. I made model airplanes and did a number of hands-on activities. I liked creating in some form or another, not realizing what it was all about.
Paul Smith
#48. I think that I got committed to physics at the age of - oh, it must have been 1942 - ten, when most countries were at war and children were interested in airplanes and bombs and such things.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#49. I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.
Niki Lauda
#50. If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.
Chuck Klosterman
#51. I did want to be a pilot. I wanted to be a military pilot because I liked airplanes. I was interested in modeling airplanes.
Roman Romanenko
#52. Airplanes". "It was cool to meet people that liked music as much as I did. As soon as we started writing together, it was pretty obvious
Hayley Williams
#53. For the first time ever, I felt ashamed of my species. The volcano had taken our homes, our food, our automobiles, and our airplanes, but it hadn't taken our humanity. No, we'd given that up on our own.
Mike Mullin
#54. I like to write on airplanes ... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.
Jon Foreman
#55. If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Joseph Stalin
#56. I drew the same things that most boys drew - airplanes and cars and fire engines. Then later on I discovered comic books, and I began to create my own comic stories. I was a comic writer, even when I was five or six years old. I would just make up stories because I thought it was fun.
Floyd Norman
#57. Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.
Charlie Munger
#58. Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
Hayao Miyazaki
#59. I remember Mac retorting that hundreds of years ago there was a Hindi word for a craft that flew in the air, long before the airplane was invented, but that did not mean that airplanes existed in ancient India.
Nelson Mandela
#60. I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.
Mary Ellen Mark
#61. I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.
Richard Bach
#62. But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They move like nothing there has ever been. They move like mechanized doom.
Ernest Hemingway,
#63. I'd rather be a boy and play with paper airplanes, then be a man and play with a woman's heart. -Niall Horan
One Direction
#64. My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
John L. Phillips
#65. I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven't been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife I didn't put up for that stuff just to come in second.
Barack Obama
#66. It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.
David Blatt
#67. Whales, like elephants, are so social and intelligent. This hurts me to think of them being transported, put in noisy airplanes, and brought to a horrible concrete pen when they're supposed to be out in the sea.
Jane Goodall
#68. When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
P. J. O'Rourke
#69. Overhead in the Paris sky
Two airplanes fought it out one day
And one of them was my whole youth
The other was my days to come
Guillaume Apollinaire
#70. Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.
Condoleezza Rice
#71. I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.
Herb Kelleher
#72. Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
Kurt Vonnegut
#73. One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the '20s and '30s. Their time was short-lived. They were frail, they tended to crash; and they could never be as fast, safe and efficient as the airplanes that replaced them.
Kenneth Oppel
#74. I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.
Robert Osborne
#75. After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat.
Mark Kelly
#76. Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.
Lawrence Kutner
#77. It's probably difficult for anyone who isn't middle-aged or older to comprehend, but people could smoke cigarettes on airplanes until Feb. 25, 1990.
Anonymous
#78. You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams.
Rita Rudner
#79. My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
Burt Reynolds
#80. I wish airplanes were more like elementary school with someone up front telling everyone to sit down and shut up.
Alonzo Bodden
#81. I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.
Sloane Crosley
#82. So unlike having to convert, you know, all the cars' or all the lorries' petrol stations, once you've actually got the clean fuels, it's relatively easy to, you know, get it to the airplanes.
Richard Branson
#83. Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.
Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani
#84. Thats why we are inconveniencing air traffickers, to make sure nobody is carrying weapons on airplanes.
George W. Bush
#85. Any object, whether animate or inanimate, will have a size. Airplanes, boats, or musical string instruments vary in size just like animals and plants, and in all cases, their size and their material construction are totally different matters even though they affect one another.
John Tyler Bonner
#86. I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.
John McPhee
#87. Brooms are better for sweeping than for flying," he said. "Besides, witches these days prefer airplanes. There's an in-flight snack and you arrive at your destination looking fabulous.
Z. Riddle
#88. Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.
Chick Hearn
#89. It's a great time to book vacation travel for the winter, .. After the first of the year, airplanes are empty, resorts are empty, and they are very excited to get early bookings.
Terry Jones
#90. 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
#91. I feel confused about what I'm supposed to be doing as a feminist because I do like fashion, and I do like magazines, too. I buy them on airplanes. I like seeing what hot trends are new this fall. It makes me feel very conflicted a lot of the time.
Megan Amram
#92. Our warriors are no longer limited to the people who fly the airplanes ... Our entire force is a warrior force. Being a warrior is not an AFSC, ... it's a condition of the heart.
John P. Jumper
#93. It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business.
Arnold Palmer
#94. Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now
Hayley Williams
#95. This is just a hunch, but I bet airplanes think helicopters are assholes.
Dana Gould
#96. There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Vladimir Nabokov
#97. But remember this, Japanese boy ... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.
Hayao Miyazaki
#98. We still have a problem here in this country of access to airports and airplanes [for terrorists].
Adam Schiff
#99. If I won the lottery,I would love to buy an airfield and populate it with enthusiasts like myself, and old airplanes.
Martin Shaw
#100. It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.
Frank Shorter
