Quotes About Takeoff

#1. [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

#2. It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.

Richard Bach

#3. I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.

Eva Herzigova

#4. Sorry, boyfriends everywhere - you're doomed to sit through an hour and forty-seven minutes of syrupy drivel. The payoff? Between my face, Tadd's abs and Quinton's biceps, your girl will be ready for takeoff as soon as the credits roll. You're welcome.

Tammara Webber

#5. There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.

Elon Musk

#6. Every takeoff and landing, when the plane banked too much to one side, I prayed for a crash.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.

Anthony Bourdain

#8. A computer will perform a takeoff or landing with all the grace of a person. It is only for combat
only for the artistry of ruin
that these vessels have pilot seats at all anymore. There is something in humanity more suited to the mechanics of murder than any machine yet devised.

Amie Kaufman

#9. You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body ... my liver ... okay, my brain ... went.

Dennis Hopper

#10. On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.

Margaret Heffernan

#11. She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

Ted Olson

#12. Discord Airlines is now boarding for takeoff.

Gayla Drummond

#13. Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

Donald J. Trump

#14. Referring to sheep experiencing a plane takeoff - As far as they knew, all this represented the next stage in the normal life cycle of a sheep

Peter Heller

#15. Keep doing the right things in life. Keep your faith and joy during tough times. Difficulty means you are being prepared for takeoff on the runways of life ahead of you!

Timothy Pina

#16. Before redeye flights, I drink copious amounts of herbal brews to help me relax and fall asleep after takeoff.

Ruzwana Bashir

#17. ARTHUR: (indicates rain) Couldn't you have peed before we went under?
YUSUF: Sorry.
The front door OPENS and Eames climbs in, soaked.
EAMES: Bit too much free champagne before takeoff, Yusuf?
YUSUF: Ha bloody ha.

Christopher J. Nolan

#18. If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

John Cleese

#19. So drink. Some do drugs. I write.

Pamela Morris

#20. It's so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

L.M. Montgomery

#21. What I want to do has no end, since I am on the endless frontier of a branch of knowledge.

Joseph M. Juran

#22. I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.

Al Yankovic

#23. There was silence. No one looked at me. People pretended to be absorbed in their phones. One writer didn't even have a phone, so he just pretended to be absorbed in his hand.

Mindy Kaling

#24. Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think

G.K. Chesterton

#25. A horrible end is better than endless horror.

Oliver Markus

#26. The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#27. It's your rich life," Alyosha said softly. "Why, is it better to be poor?" "Yes, it is.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#28. I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

Warren Buffett

#29. The best way to win is to not need to.

Wayne Dyer

#30. The sweetest feeling you can have in this world is to feel the hand of the Lord upon your shoulder. In my patriarchal blessing as a boy, I was promised that I would have the gift of discernment. I have to acknowledge that such a declaration has been abundantly fulfilled in my life.

Thomas S. Monson

#31. The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Aesop

#33. Why don't you and I have a nice penetrating man-to-man conversation?

Sanami Matoh