Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalton Trumbo

Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you're going to fly an airplane. Most things are just the reverse from what people think. The higher you are the safer you are. The Earth down there, that, that-s your enemy because once you hit that, boy, you splatter.

David Letterman

Former President Bush, to celebrate his 80th birthday, jumped out of an airplane. And if you've seen the polls, you know he's not the only Bush in freefall.

Louis C. K.

People don't talk to me on airplanes.

We just wet ourselves. If you've got a airplane coming at you don't know whether to run or hide.

Harrison Ford

On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember which knee. The scene in which I was fighting the big German mechanic on an airplane called a flying wing, I was run over by the landing gear and injured my knee, but I can't remember which one it was. Lots of bumps and injuries along the way.

Peter Scott

We cannot expect forever staff to show up on the airplane and be given a heavily subsidized house,

Jim Brown

TWA believes that the remains of Flight 800 should be treated like the remains of any other airplane crash and disposed of respectfully once the investigation is concluded.

Eva Herzigova

We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.

Moby

For me the two biggest issues are climate change and animal welfare/animal agriculture. And oddly enough animal agriculture is such a contributor to climate change. According to the United Nations, 25% of climate change comes from animal agriculture, so every car, bus, boat, truck, airplane combined has less CO2 and methane emissions than animal agriculture.

Muhammad Ali

Superman don't need no seat belt.

Mark Kennedy

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

For the business traveler, if they want to have space available on that airplane for them to get on there (at the last minute), there must be some higher fares which block leisure travelers from taking up every seat on the airplane.

Harry Reasoner

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

This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.

Harry Reasoner

The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.

J. Maarten Troost

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

Masaharu Morimoto

I dont eat anything on an airplane.

Paul Greengrass

The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

Juan Williams

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

Leonardo da Vinci

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Mitt Romney

Mr. President, you’re entitled as a president to your own airplane, and to your own house, but not to your own facts.

Nevil Shute

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

Jesse Ventura

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

Ken Kesey

The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.

Kristen Bell

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant

Kevin Plank

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

Heated glass has some history - in supermarket freezer doors and airplane windows. That's why they don't fog up.

Jay Leno

We're heading for a gov. shutdown. This is serious. W/o the gov who will fail to inspect our airplanes? Who will fail to secure our borders? Who will put us 14 trillion dollars in debt?

Buzz Aldrin

Drive over to the nearest airport, and enroll in flight classes. You will experience the joy of freedom in the air above, as you study the mechanics of how this is made possible by understanding the construction, the laws of motion, the air that can provide lift when it is moved by propulsion through the air, and stay above the gravity pulling the airplane back down to earth.

Buzz Aldrin

I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn't a slouch.

Our technology development effort is proceeding as planned. We understand the technologies needed for the airplane and the team of professionals from Boeing and our partners is working tirelessly to develop and prove them.

Alex Miller

Compared to other aviation services that may be landing on the snow we shut (the) airplane engine down so you get this natural quiet which is fundamental to the product.

Al Stewart

Team Macon continues to be upbeat. And we're doing our part to ensure the success of the C-17 program because it's the right airplane at the right time.