Aviation Quotes · Page 5

Experience comes from bad judgment.

— Mark Twain

It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.

— Herb Kelleher

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

— Amelia Earhart

Offense is the essence of air power.

— Henry H. Arnold

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.

— Winston Churchill

We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.

— Michael O'Leary

Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills.

— Pancho Barnes

“Hello video camera, goodbye airline ticket.”

— Steven Magee

We have to make you think it's an important seat - because you're in it.

— Don Burr

Whatever Boelcke told us was taken as Gospel!

— Manfred von Richthofen

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

— Richard Hakluyt

To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.

— Alberto Santos-Dumont

In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

— Neil Armstrong

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and…

— Igor Sikorsky

A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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

— Richard Bach

Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds…

— Avi Arad

If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

— Harriet Quimby

There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a…

— Ernest K. Gann

And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

First Europe, and then the globe, will be linked by flight, and nations so knit together that they will grow to be…

— Claude Grahame-White

I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and…

— Stephen Coonts

In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's…

— Dennis Quaid

Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being…

— Adolf Galland

The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's…

— Igor Sikorsky

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and…

— Mary Garden

There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at…

— John Dos Passos

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste;…

— Charles Lindbergh

I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane.…

— Richard Bach

By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste;…

— Anonymous

The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced…

— Richard van der Riet Woolley

Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their…

— Richard Bach

And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

Artificial flight may be defined as that form of aviation in which a man flies at will in any direction by means…

— Otto Lilienthal

I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.

— Erich Hartmann

The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.

— Manfred von Richthofen

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

— Neil Armstrong