Plane Quotes · Page 19

The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.

— C. Maxwell Stanley

I have a list of things I want to experience and being a pilot was right on top of that list.

— Kunal Kapoor

Skydiving is a rush. Doing it naked could be more of a rush, but it's nothing I would ever consider.

— Jud Tylor

If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'

— Maeve Binchy

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

— John Barrowman

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

— Igor Sikorsky

I had this dream. I wanted to fly fighter jets. And that's what I did.

— Amy McGrath

The flight was extremely normal . . . for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.

— Pete Conrad

It is quite surreal when you go to places up the north, like Inner Mongolia, and you are getting mobbed at the…

— Stephen Hendry

When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were…

— Taryn Manning

In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

— Bill Engvall

You can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The…

— Werner Herzog

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing…

— Tori Amos

If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying…

— Robert Crandall

As a long-time British Airways advisor, I have seen first-hand that as a company they are committed to innovation, entrepreneurship and the…

— Rhonda Abrams

I know every time I fly, I get checked twice: they stop me at security, and then, they get me again at…

— Wanda Sykes

As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started photographing,…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a…

— Isaac Asimov

Maybe the discipline in North America is just consolidation, right? I mean, it may be that if there were more vigorous pursuit…

— Paul Solman

“IN MEMORIAM: FLIGHT 752 I try to envisage the passengers seated in neat rows. Everyone knows the real risk is at take-off…

— Kamand Kojouri

I was taking my advance freefall course, doing my level 1 jump. My heart was racing. Like I said, I have a…

— Dean Potter

And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works.…

— Boyan Slat

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social…

— Steven Pinker

Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough.

— Christine Lahti

I will never master arriving at the airport at an appropriate time for departure.

— Nicky Hilton

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

— Keren Ann

I've flown halfway around the world to kiss a girl. I jumped on a plane and flew to Australia.

— Geoff Stults

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history…

— Alan Shepard

I fear nothing. I fly around and do things a guy 6-2 and 240 would not do. That gives me an edge.

— Rohan Marley

Making a pilot is never a seamless process. If it is, it usually tanks.

— Max Greenfield

If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

— George Carlin

Why do airplanes have flotation devices under the seats instead of parachutes?

— Anonymous

“She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

— Jessica Cox

I was on the plane with Dwayne You can call me Whitley, I go to Hillman

— Nicki Minaj

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

— Henry Ford

Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.

— Ed Acker

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

— Douglass North

“The TSA gets all upset about things like razor blades and pocket knives. They're narrow minded that way.”

— Rex Cutty