Passengers Quotes

205 quotes by 184 authors

To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment two types of… — Octave Chanute
The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle between fixed and… — Oliver Stewart
Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to… — Bill Lipinski
Each system will depend on resources available, not from the bottom up or top down. In other words, if you put 500 passengers in an… — Jacque Fresco
I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers. — David Neeleman
We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers. — Gordon Bethune
What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who… — Pentti Linkola
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo… — Gustave Flaubert
We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down… — Todd Tiahrt
It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers. — Cyrus Rowlett Smith
The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We… — Ernest K. Gann
When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower. — Martin Amis
It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in… — George Will
Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of… — Aldo Leopold
Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway. — Don Rittner
[Love] has as few problems as a motocar. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road. — Franz Kafka
I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it. — Tom Stoppard
About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light… — Sherwood Boehlert
To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific… — Lee De Forest
Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it… — Ralph Harper

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