Quotes About The Raf

#1. Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.

Bob Hoskins

#2. It would be nice to be a professional pilot. I'm an amateur pilot at the moment. I've got a lot of friends in the RAF and I don't think I've ever met a group of people who love their job as much as they do.

Martin Shaw

#3. I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with the RAF in India.

Terry Jones

#4. Dresden, which I am told presents no military or industrial targets whatsoever for the RAF.

Paul Russell

#5. Many at the State Department think its their job, not the Army's, to develop cultural and regional expertise and relationships. In such quarters, the RAF concept looks less like an innovative approach to global risk management than yet another military effort to replace diplomats with soldiers.

Rosa Brooks

#6. I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.

Mike Oldfield

#7. which is why she tried to join the RAF, so she could obtain a socially respectable opportunity to gratify her homicidal urges." "So

Jon Ronson

#8. Aeroplanes interested me, and at the outbreak of the Second World War, I joined the RAF as a volunteer reservist. I took the opportunity of studying the books which the RAF made available for radio mechanics and looked forward to an interesting course in radio.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#9. My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.

Eric Idle

#10. High time they put the RAF in kilts.

Elizabeth Wein

#11. In its offensive against the state, the urban guerilla cannot resort to terrorism as a weapon.

Red Army Faction

#12. We're not feeling edgy; the system is feeling nervous.

Red Army Faction

#13. Following this logic, to bomb BASF in Ludwigshafen would be to mock the people who bombed BASF in Brazil. The Latin American comrades feel differently. BASF does as well.

Red Army Faction

#14. It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.

Jonathan Powell

#15. Disaster began at the end of September with an attack by RAF Bomber Command which drained the Dortmund-Ems canal.

Anonymous

#16. I remember one time I went to Craigslist to find something; that's how bad I wanted it. It was a pair of Raf Simons - this was like 2010. But Raf said he was going to make them for me.

ASAP Rocky

#17. They see in the population's hostility towards the left only the hostility towards the left, not the hatred against those who are socially privileged.

Red Army Faction

#18. I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck.

Nina Bawden

#19. They see in the political apathy of the proletariat only the apathy, not the protest against a system that has nothing to offer them.

Red Army Faction

#20. The rejection of sabotage in the metropole, based on the argument that it would be better to take things over instead of destroying them, is based on the dictum: The people of the Third World should wait for their revolution until the masses in the metropole catch up.

Red Army Faction

#21. You don't like people?" Raf asked. "I don't like what people do to each other.

Matthew Reilly