Quotes on Airplane

A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday.

If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?

You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in_x000D_ which I am an expert … For decades, as a professional experimental test engineer, I have analyzed experimental data and watched others massage and present data. I became a cynic; My conclusion - 'if someone is aggressively selling a technical product who's merits are dependent on complex experimental data, he is likely lying'. That is true whether the product is an airplane or a Carbon Credit.

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Mark my word - A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

I can write anywhere. I made up the names of the characters on a sick bag while I was on an airplane. I told this to a group of kids and a boy said, "Ah, no, that's disgusting." And I said, "Well, I hadn't used the sick bag."

I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.

Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that the construction of an airplane, for instance, is simple when compared [with] a bird; that airplanes depend on an advanced civilization, and that were civilization is most advanced, few birds exist. I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

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

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.

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.