The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.

You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at…

— Neil Gaiman

I think there is something exhilarating in flying amongst clouds, and always get a feeling of wanting to pit my aeroplane against them, charge…

— Charles Rumney Samson

If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and…

— Werner Herzog

Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and climbed into the cockpit;…

— Charles Rumney Samson

“You have something against women flying aeroplanes? No, three's a crowd that's all. We'd have all ended up in the drink.”

— David Dennington, The Ghost of Captain Hinchliffe

The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping…

— Samantha Bond

Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility…

— Manfred von Richthofen

I was fascinated by aeroplanes in my childhood. So, it was like I wanted to study science and then become a pilot.

— Mayank Agarwal

As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all…

— George Orwell

Hey there's not a cloud in the sky It's as blue as your goodbye And I thought that it would rain On a day…

— Wendy Matthews

I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.

— Dennis Muilenburg

You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That…

— John Buchan

As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed…

— H. G. Wells

The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science.…

— Charles Lindbergh

The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five or seven…

— Waldemar Kaempffert