Plane Quotes · Page 23

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

— Ike Turner

“The X-Plane author compared piloting Martian aircraft to flying a supersonic ocean liner.”

— Randall Munroe

The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.

— Burt Rutan

“We're all in crashing plane, and everybody is fighting over who gets to sit in first class.”

— Aaron Nordquist

Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

— Calvin Coolidge

Most budget airlines anywhere in the world are going to leave you dissatisfied after using them.

— Chris Hadfield

“1954. Smog prevents airplanes from landing and ships from docking for three days.”

— James Frey

“You're on a plane! We're all on planes. Life is dangerous and complicated and... it's a long way down.”

— House MD

When I met Richard Leakey, I thought, 'This is the most charismatic man I've ever met.' He has no legs. He lost…

— Eric Roth

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time…

— Keren Ann

Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into…

— Charles Lindbergh

I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was…

— Ellie Goulding

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web,…

— Bill Gates

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers…

— Paul Reiser

“Most of us are irrational about risk.1 We leap into our cars without a second thought but pray when we get on…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on,…

— David Neeleman

Today, the U.S. fleet has shrunk to just four main carriers, which control 80 percent-plus of the U.S. market. No wonder passengers…

— Paul Solman

'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and…

— The Weeknd

During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge…

— Ernest K. Gann

When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no - and you can't find any…

— Mitt Romney

I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't…

— Christopher Walken

It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and…

— John Mica

The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present…

— Paul Johnson

In most every other country, 'body flying' more commonly known as BASE jumping is legal and looked upon as a beautiful art.…

— Dean Potter

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

— David Attenborough

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

— Anonymous

If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.

— Gina Barreca

I would not board a plane piloted by a quota beneficiary or be operated on by a quota doctor.

— Jair Bolsonaro

Few things make me sadder than when someone farts on a plane and I can't escape it...

— Olivia Munn

Between the ages of 12 and 15, I wanted to be a pilot because I thought it would be glamorous and dangerous.

— Jed Mercurio

Flying to Fair Isle from Lerwick is an experience I'll never forget.

— Douglas Henshall

My favorite smell ever is right when you get off the plane in Hawaii.

— Evan Mock

I like my flight sims because I can set up a very robust joystick setup and my head tracking software.

— Thomas Middleditch

“Budget airlines are notorious for over selling their flights and bumping passengers when too many show up!”

— Steven Magee

I'd love to grow a pair of discreet wings so I could just fly around a bit and impress people.

— Joe Lycett

From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.

— Ueli Gegenschatz

I don't know: Why aren't people fascinated by air traffic controllers?

— Kurt Fuller

The air travel industry moves into a new phase every five to six years.

— Niki Lauda

“Every takeoff and landing, when the plane banked too much to one side, I prayed for a crash.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Nothing bad can happen to us if we were on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it.

— Waqar Younis