Airplanes Quotes

166 Airplanes quotes by 141 unique authors

What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced 'uh-LOO-mih-num', right? Anybody… — Isaac Asimov
Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company. — Bill Gates
I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five… — Steve Fossett
I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms.… — Garrison Keillor
Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of… — Eileen Collins
In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to.… — Mark Burnett
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists… — Simone de Beauvoir
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music. — Claude Debussy
Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really… — Burt Rutan
I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot… — Burt Rutan
There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and… — Burt Rutan
I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast. — Jack Vance
Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe that human beings… — John Ralston Saul
In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes. — Dave Barry
If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a runway completely covered… — Dave Barry
There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of… — Frank Borman
I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes? — Ameen Rihani
Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II. — Adolf Galland
I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride. — Chris Hadfield
Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do. — Bill James
From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass… — George Nethercutt
Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type of work requires… — Steve Jobs
I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. — Carroll Shelby
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a toy made of paper children use to play with. My opinion is… — Henri Coanda
My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. — Temple Grandin

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