Top 60 Quotes About Helicopters
#1. I've had injuries in my life from things beyond my control: runaway horses, helicopters that decide to crash on mountaintops, boating accidents - things that were out of my hands.
Christie Brinkley
#2. The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.
Warren Rudman
#3. In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.
Martin Jacques
#4. I've done all kinds of cool things as an actor - I've jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball in a professional stadium, but none of it means anything compared to being somebody's daddy.
Chris Pratt
#5. What sort of exploring?" Shielding his eyes, Adam lifted his eyes to the sky. He thought he could hear Gansey coming. "Mountains. How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?
Maggie Stiefvater
#6. Emma gasped. "You drank faerie wine? Cristina! That's how you black out and wake up the next day under a bridge with a tattoo that says I LOVE HELICOPTERS.
Cassandra Clare
#7. So you wake up this morning and find you're president of the United States. Pretty cool, no? Helicopters and a 747 at your disposal; courtside seats at any NBA playoff game of your choice; everyone stands up and the band plays when you come into the room.
Jeff Greenfield
#8. I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.
Sebastian Pinera
#9. Muttering, "Fuck it," he threw his finger away. It hit the wall. He heard the quiet thunk through the sounds of helicopters. Must
Richard Laymon
#10. When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs!
Calvin Trillin
#11. War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
Alice Walker
#12. Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.
Alan Cranston
#13. 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
#14. Contrails. Also helicopters. Skydivers. Basically everything
Tim Pratt
#15. For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.
Jeff Carlson
#16. Let them come. We've got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We've got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?
Michael Monroe
#17. In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
Seamus Heaney
#18. We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies.
Sergei Lavrov
#19. I began to see that the pen and the words that come from it can be much more powerful than machine guns, tanks or helicopters.
Malala Yousafzai
#20. I'm not sure how healthy it is to shoot police helicopters with bazookas.
Moby
#21. Lady, I've trained for months. I've taken down your helicopters with only a slingshot. I've looked a librarian right in the area where most creatures would have eyes. You. Do. Not. Scare me.
Joseph Fink
#22. The economic boom has given us too many people with helicopters and too many crushed into cockroachy flats from hell, way too many loathing their lives in fluorescent cubicles, enduring for the weekend and then starting all over again, and we're fracturing under the weight of it.
Tana French
#23. The days seemed to stretch out toward infinity, blank and humid, without purpose, and at night I was kept awake by the endless drone of mosquitoes and helicopters. (Why wars must be contested under such conditions I shall never understand. Is not death sufficient?)
Tim O'Brien
#25. Paraffin never works. I have to do this. The police helicopters. And I pull the trigger. 30 IN MY FATHER'S house are many mansions. Of course, when I pulled the trigger, I died. Liar.
Chuck Palahniuk
#26. Helicopters - "ghetto birds," as the other residents called them -
Duff McKagan
#27. Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly trained men and helicopters.
Richard Engel
#28. During the battles last night and at dawn, they [ Ba'th Socialist Party fighters] had destroyed three American helicopters
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#30. man, you have two helicopters. Uh, I guess it's too late to be asking this, but are you some kind of commando?" Frey laughed again and shook his head. "No, I own a gym.
Faith Gibson
#31. If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.
Emmanuel Jal
#32. I don't date officers. Or men who jump out of helicopters for a living."
"Technically, we rappel."
She shrugged, feigning indifference. "Same thing, really.
Loribelle Hunt
#33. The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
Dave Barry
#34. For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
#35. How do you feel about helicopters?"
There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?"
"As a mode of transportation."
"Faster than camels, but less sustainable.
Maggie Stiefvater
#36. Over the past 30 years, hand grenades, tanks, fighter jets, missiles, helicopters and assault rifles have replaced traditional floral patterns in rug making and other textiles. Depicting these realities of war has helped the Afghan people to survive during times of conflict.
Henri Cole
#37. Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.
Peter York
#38. Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats.
Ken Goldberg
#39. Mike Smith - living proof of the need for ejector seats in helicopters.
Victor Lewis-Smith
#40. This is just a hunch, but I bet airplanes think helicopters are assholes.
Dana Gould
#41. The children of the world, what they want and what they need are health clinics and schools, not tanks or armed helicopters or fighter jets.
Oscar Arias
#42. I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.
Haskell Wexler
#43. God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?
Suzanne Finnamore
#44. We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.
Noam Chomsky
#45. That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.
Anna Lindh
#46. There aren't any lions in England," Lenina almost snapped.
"And even if there were," the Savage added, with sudden contemptuous resentment, "people would kill them out of helicopters, I suppose, with poison gas or something.
Aldous Huxley
#48. I'm quite scared of flying, and especially helicopters, I don't like them at all.
Heidi Klum
#49. Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.
Tom Clancy
#50. I'd throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.
Ben Bernanke
#51. I love doing stunt stuff and action stuff. I'm not flipping off helicopters; that would be insane.
Dylan O'Brien
#52. No matter how many helicopters there are, when it comes down to it there is the camera and you.
Jacqueline McKenzie
#53. Hey had burnt and destroyed around 30 vehicles, including tanks and APC's and damaged three enemy helicopters. God bless the fighters of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#54. The helicopter was a U.S. Navy helicopter. There were no civilian helicopters available to film companies, so they just made some stuff out of two-by-four wood. And I would straddle a two-by-four out from the helicopter with a camera and what we call a high hat, which is a low metal stand.
Haskell Wexler
#55. I'm not getting up in the helicopter. I have a premonition that I'm going to get killed in a helicopter crash.
Vic Morrow
#56. One day I'm going to go up in a helicopter and it'll just blow up. MI5 will do away with me
Princess Diana
#57. A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.
Ben Bernanke
#58. Tom's Navy SEAL team nicknamed him 'Tailspin', especially after sustaining his knee injury, but Joe likes to call him his 'Lucky Charm' -- saved his tail too many times to count.
L.A. Kragie
#59. The helicopter has never achieved much success and ... may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.
Oliver Stewart
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