Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yani Tseng

Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.

Bill Hader

When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.

Ashley Tisdale

I grew up on movies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun. You probably saw it more recently, but as a kid I grew up on them so I loved those kinds of movies.

Bertrand Russell

I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.

Bruce Schneier

We could ground all airplanes and not have any more airplane crashes, ... The key is whether the good uses of the Net outweigh the bad. Life is like that. You just have to take the good with the bad.

Margot Robbie

I love flying so much. I even like airplane food. No one bothers you and your phone never goes off and you can't have emails go through. It's undisturbed.

We had our first airplane ride when we were around 8 years old. A neighbor with a seed company had an airplane and took us up. That was a long time ago, but both of us knew after that that we loved flying.

Felix Sabates

To make a hall of fame successful they need drivers to make appearances. These guys are not going to get in an airplane to fly to Atlanta to do appearances.

Burt Rutan

I strongly feel that, if we are successful, our program will mark the beginning of a renaissance for manned space flight. This might even be similar to that wonderful time period between 1908 and 1912 when the world went from a total of ten airplane pilots to hundreds of airplane types and thousands of pilots in 39 countries.

Mike Leigh

jumping out of an airplane without a parachute.

It is equally safe and equally reliable, but it is half the fuel we consume when pushing the airplane out of the gate.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

Beck

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

Guy Burgess

The problem of dealing with conflict on a large, sort of society-wide scale, is a bit analogous to building a complex aircraft. You need a whole lot of different parts. You can't fly an airplane with just a jet engine, you need wings, you needs control surfaces, you need avionics, you need a seat for the pilot, fuel tanks, all sorts of stuff.

We finally don't have to jump on an airplane and fly 3,000 miles.

Nobody could fly an airplane commercially on any route without specific permission from the Civil Aeronautics Board, and price competition, cutting prices, was illegal.

I would be on the first airplane out of here. We would have our operation in the U.S. up and running in 30 days.

Basketball camps, soccer camps, football camps, band camps and even airplane flying camps. You name it. We got it.

Because this is a major staging area, every helicopter and airplane from this part of the state is landing there. We're having to wear earplugs while we work because the noise is so deafening particularly from the Black Hawk helicopters and jumbo jets which began landing on Saturday, ... In spite of the challenges, the medical personnel on site are enthusiastic about their work and they welcomed us with open arms.

S. Truett Cathy

I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'

Fortunately, the captain noticed the smaller plane out of the corner of his eye. He immediately pulled the airplane into a much steeper climb.

Jim Hall

To date, with over 90 percent of the airplane recovered, there is no physical evidence of a bomb or missile strike,

There is great progress in bringing the airplane into existence.

We're on the downward slope of the commercial airplane cycle. But given the rebound the company has been able to make in improving production efficiencies, they should be able to offset the decline in revenue as operating profits improve going forward.

Kelly Ripa

Please get on an airplane or a horse, because it's pretty spectacular.

Chuck D.

He was in very bad weather and his airplane broke up.

He was the best pilot I've ever known, ... He was a natural at the controls of an airplane. He did things with an airplane that it didn't seem other people could do.

I have encouraged my children from the get-go to sleep on the airplane or in a car, whatever mode of transportation we're using. I remind them that they will be happy that they have slept because they will have lots of energy to explore

I feel like I jumped out of an airplane at 40,000 feet without a parachute,

I can't imagine any American pilot crashing an airplane into one of these buildings even with a gun to the head. They wouldn't do that.

From a customer's perspective, you obviously gain a tremendous benefit. You can get off the airplane faster, and you can get on the airplane faster.