Airplane Quotes · Page 30

Every time I get on an airplane I figure it's gonna get blown up. You live on the edge.

— Joan Rivers

Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

— Giulio Douhet

The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would…

— Charles Lindbergh

I thought there were the day before when Hillary Clinton coughed for about, I don't know, 15 minutes and then coughed on…

— Rudy Giuliani

You will remember me as a little child in another time, during another war, and involving another airplane.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

Airplanes are like women - pick what you like and try to get it away from the guy who has it, then…

— Stephen Coonts

Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my…

— Joshua Bell

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you…

— Chuck Yeager

When I saw that show Lost I learned something. Other than one sort of big dude if you're in an airplane crash…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I know a lot of people in the aviation business, particularly ones who will fly to places where your boots get dirty…

— Erik Prince

When I was a little girl, my father, who was a high-ranking officer, pilot, and an avionics specialist in the United States…

— Harris Faulkner

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

— Igor Sikorsky

We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that…

— John Brunner

I had my airplane, and I'd use it as a car whenever I could. If the drive was going to be longer…

— Jake Busey

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go…

— Samuel Butler

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

— Richard Bach

Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane…

— S. J. Perelman

I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much.

— John Rhys-Davies

I was teaching airplane mechanics when I realized it was more fun to make them laugh. I was laid off one more…

— Alonzo Bodden

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do.

— Mandy Moore

Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance…

— John W. Weeks

For one of my specials, I said, "I'm going to make an airplane disappear." Okay! And the next day, everything went crazy…

— David Copperfield

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

— Al Gore

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

— Sally Mann