Quotes About Flying A Plane

#1. Life without GOALS is like flying a plane not knowing where you want to land. The PURPOSE OF LIFE is to know where we want to go and then go there. RVM

R.v.m.

#2. I do have a bit of a fear of heights. But I don't get scared of heights when I am flying a plane.

David Mackay

#3. Sometimes you do things for personal reasons. I made a very personal movie in We Are Marshall. I was afraid of flying, for a long time, and that's a movie about a plane crash.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

#4. A one night stand with the perfect girl is like ... it's like getting to the airport in Hawaii, then getting right back on the plane and flying home. It's depressing to have been that close to paradise without actually getting there.

Steph Campbell

#5. My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

Richard Bach

#6. I'm happy to get up in the morning. I'll tell you a little secret: I still want to work in Hollywood. However, I get really excited about getting on a plane, flying to a city, and talking to a group of people about finding the gifts they already have inside.

Kim Coles

#7. The upshot is: Your plane would fly pretty well, except it would be on fire the whole time, and then it would stop flying, and then stop being a plane. The

Randall Munroe

#8. I had my airplane, and I'd use it as a car whenever I could. If the drive was going to be longer than an hour, I was flying the plane instead. And in California, it's really easy to have a drive longer than an hour.

Jake Busey

#9. A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

Alton Brown

#10. When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.

Carolina Herrera

#11. I have so many miles and I've been flying for so long that every time I fly, it's first class. It's one of those things that, if I needed to jump on a plane, and fly to Spain tomorrow, I know I could get it done. Just like that.

Lupe Fiasco

#12. Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

Nathan Myhrvold

#13. In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It's a good thing it's fun, otherwise it would be too much work.

Tom Hanks

#14. Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

Mignon McLaughlin

#15. I have not seen "Batman v Superman," unfortunately. It hasn't been on the plane, as I've been flying a lot.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#16. Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.

Anthony Edwards

#17. Killed so tragically in a plane crash, in a plane he was flying himself; David Amory, her grandfather, who was aboard that plane,

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#18. I like watching DVDs, flying my plane, walking and going to my place in Scotland. I like yoga. It takes me a while to unwind, the subconscious parts of my mind take a while to catch up with the rest of me.

Martin Shaw

#19. Leaving the house is a big enough occasion for me, so getting on a plane and flying across the world and playing to a room full of people is just out of this world.

Courtney Barnett

#20. My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.

Golda Meir

#21. Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

Chuck Daly

#22. Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

Graham Greene

#23. I'm not a big fan of flying. I definitely try to take the bus whenever I can. I've gotten a little bit better about it, but it was a pretty crippling thing for many years. I feel safer in a private plane.

Martina Mcbride

#24. Flying is my favorite time in the world. When I'm sitting in a plane, it's amazing because it's quiet and there's no cell phones and no one to talk to you. It's my favorite time. I read all my scripts. I catch up on my movies. I sleep. It's the best. There's no one telling you, "Time to go!"

Priyanka Chopra

#25. Scared of flying?"
"Nope"
"Heights?"
"Nope"
The plane shook again, and I closed my eyes, trying to take deep breaths.
"What is it then?"
"I have a fear of falling from heights.

Laura Kreitzer

#26. She had always been this way: interested-quite unnecessarily, some would say-in the secrets of strangers. When flying, she always chose a window seat so that when the plane took off or landed, she could look down on the tiny houses and imagine the lives of the people who inhabited them.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#27. Your plane would fly pretty well, except it would be on fire the whole time, and then it would stop flying, and then stop being a plane.

Randall Munroe

#28. I was flying to the Maldives in 2000 when the plane went through turbulence - after that, I didn't fly for four years. Then a job came up in India, so I did a simulator flight and learnt about what goes on in the cockpit. I'm fine now.

Paul Merton

#29. If I could fly, I would soar all the way up to the window of a plane carrying a suitcase in my hand, then I'd motion toward the plane's door and make an annoyed face at the terrified passengers. I have a feeling I would do this a lot.

Colin Nissan

#30. The way an aircraft flies - that is the way the strategy works. Most of the time the plane is on autopilot, and does a great job of flying itself. Every once in a while it is necessary for the pilot to jump in.

Roy Niederhoffer

#31. You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.

Rachel McAdams

#32. Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

Alan Bradley

#33. Flying in a modern jet airplane doses the human with levels of radiation comparable to those found in nuclear disaster zones.

Steven Magee

#34. When Iron Man's flying, we'd send real planes up to do the choreography so that we'd get the camerawork to really look like a cameraman was following from another plane. It gives it that 'Top Gun' look.

Jon Favreau

#35. There's a plane flying over me and I'm looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed.

Ellen MacArthur

#36. It's quite amazing what 3D is doing to movies. Just simple things like a paper plane flying at you or flower petals fluttering about are wonderful.

Kou Shibasaki

#37. I'm clearly not frightened of flying because I fly all the time, but every once in a while I do, as we all do, think, What if this plane goes down? And I think, Well, if I'm holding the hand of the person sitting next to me, then I'm holding everyone's hand.

Gloria Steinem

#38. Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.

Golda Meir