Aviation Quotes · Page 12

Remember, you fly an airplane with you head, not your hands and feet.

— Bevo Howard

They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing.

— Angelina Jolie

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

— Alan Jay Lerner

“As an altitude researcher, I know the air turbulence is getting worse every year.”

— Steven Magee

Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.

— Michael Parfit

Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are.

— Felix Baumgartner

A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying.

— Louise Thaden

If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it.

— Elton Joe Kendall

There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.

— Elon Musk

Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a…

— Louise Thaden

There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing…

— Richard Branson

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

— Charles Lindbergh

Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares,…

— Gordon Bethune

Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man…

— Wolfgang Langewiesche

A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He…

— Mark Twain

War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to…

— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long…

— H. G. Wells

I have found that women are not only just as much interested as men are in flying, but apparently have less fear…

— Katherine Stinson

I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from…

— Lord Kelvin

Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers. [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas…

— Plautus

I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going…

— Pierre Clostermann

I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack…

— John Trevor Godfrey

To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To…

— Henri Mignet

I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds.…

— William Langewiesche

The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in…

— Robert Crippen

So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could…

— Cecil Arthur Lewis

It is about a period in aviation which is now gone, but which was probably more interesting than any the future will…

— Charles Lindbergh

He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is…

— Samuel Johnson

The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.

— Francis Collins

There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

— Wendell Willkie

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

— Will Durant

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

— Bruce Dickinson

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

— Winston Churchill

Be Luke Skywalker, not Darth Vader. Ultimately love is stronger than evil.

— Don Burr

Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

— Josephus Daniels

Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.

— Ernest K. Gann