Airplane Quotes · Page 5

Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do.…

— Kathy Acker

The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

— Khaled Hosseini

Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three…

— Mary Roach

If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down.…

— Noah Hawley

We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.

— Joe Sutter

“Pilots have an established history of committing mass murder during their suicides.”

— Steven Magee

Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they…

— Jesse Jackson

Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane,…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the…

— Amanda Bennett

I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time…

— Kevin Patterson

It is absolutely absurd that someone who is deemed unsafe to get on an airplane is allowed to buy a gun in…

— Seth Moulton

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

— John McPhee

I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go…

— Gordon Cooper

“Who else had ever met the business-end of a bolt of lightning in mid-flight, as he had just now, flying blind through…

— Cornell Woolrich

People don't talk to me on airplanes.

— Louis C. K

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or…

— Kristen Bell

To work with someone you love is something special, an incredible experience. But it could be a negative. You have to make…

— Diane Ladd

Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will…

— Octave Chanute

We can open up our computers and Skype with someone, and we see them. It's like looking through a window. And we…

— Mohsin Hamid

I'd love to work with Francis Ford Coppola. I met Coppola on an airplane.

— Paul Reubens

I was playing Russell Long, the senator from Louisiana. I had 12 speech teachers watching me. All the other passengers on the…

— Walter Matthau

I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus,…

— Ringo Starr

Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the…

— George C. Marshall

I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.

— Arnold Palmer

If you can fly an airplane competently, you can fly it safely even if something does happen.

— Jessica Cox