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Being on a commercial airplane is actually one of the safest places you can be on the planet.
I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.
Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.
Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.
Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors.
I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots.
I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.
When I get on the airplane, I put on the eye mask. And I travel a lot so I use it all the time.
My first airplane trip was to Paris. I had this fantasy that I would become a model, and I did!
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.
I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.
The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.
I suppose I built my share of model airplanes, but I can't remember that I was a flying fanatic.
We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.
My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.
World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.
We still have a problem here in this country of access to airports and airplanes [for terrorists].
I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.
Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.
We have to remember that Arafat was the one that started with hijacking airplanes already in 1968.
Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.
Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.
Growing up in the 1960s, I can't remember a time when I wasn't fascinated by airplanes and rockets.
I love 'Airplane,' the 'Naked Gun' films; everything the Zucker brothers have done is just awesome.
Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane.
It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.
I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.
Totally uneventful. It was a very successful first flight. To be honest, it was a little bit boring.
I love getting oxygen facials because I travel a lot. My skin gets pretty dry with all the airplanes.
An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible.
The only times I'm consistent about praying are when I'm on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by.
Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.
For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.
Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.
After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."
Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
If I was on an airplane, the people in coach would know who I am. But no one in first class would know.
Thats why we are inconveniencing air traffickers, to make sure nobody is carrying weapons on airplanes.
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
I'm from Paris, Texas, okay! I remember looking up and just dreaming to one day make it on an airplane.
We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.