Plane Quotes · Page 14

I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.

— Terry Pratchett

“A pilot who signs up to fly through the eye of a storm doesn't complain of the turbulence.”

— DiAnn Mills

My experience enables me to select the very best pilots in the market.

— Niki Lauda

I'm not getting up in the helicopter. I have a premonition that I'm going to get killed in a helicopter crash.

— Vic Morrow

There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

— Daniel Goldin

If it's torture flying one airline and [yours] is a pleasant experience, it certainly helps your revenue.

— David Neeleman

If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

— George Stigler

When people asked me what I did for a living, I told them I make pilots. They thought I was a stewardess.

— Suzanne Somers

At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging…

— Burt Rutan

I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've…

— Marc Jacobs

But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and…

— Leroy Chiao

Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue.…

— Maz Jobrani

I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can…

— Ilana Glazer

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading…

— Keith Henson

I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having…

— Steven Amsterdam

If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much…

— Waylon Jennings

Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors…

— Ernest K. Gann

“As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who…

— Auguste Piccard

We had an airplane, a Beechcraft Baron, that we - I had since 1981. And Annie [Glenn] and I both of had…

— John Glenn

I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my…

— Tom Glavine

As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who…

— Auguste Piccard

If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a…

— Dave Barry

There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face…

— Robin Olds

“Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be…

— John Lanchester

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

— Steven Wright

I like being on a plane with no phone service because I get so much work done.

— Pramila Jayapal

I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late.

— Morgan Freeman

US Airways made an $8 billion bid for Delta, including $4 billion in cash and $4 billion in lost luggage.

— Andy Borowitz

Flying is so miserable these days. You have to go through security, and get up at the crack of dawn.

— John Waite

Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine.

— Philip Greenspun

Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.

— Gordon Bethune

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

— George H. W. Bush

I always eat a meal at home before I leave for the airport, so I only eat the soup and salad on…

— Nobu Matsuhisa

To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster.

— John Trevor Godfrey

Signal di plane, mek wi signal di plane. Nuh mek yuh friend get buss, signal di plane.

— Elephant Man

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

— Anita Loos

The list of plane reservations I keep on my phone - it's very, very, very long.

— Margrethe Vestager

The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

— Anonymous

It's just terrible: I miss flights all the time, more than I probably catch one.

— Margot Robbie

“Some airline gate agents are habitually canceling customer airline tickets for silly reasons.”

— Steven Magee