Planes Quotes
849 quotes by 659 authors
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I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the newspapers…
— Lynn Nottage
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Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
— Chuck Jones
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In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well, contributing…
— Vissarion Belinsky
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Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'
— Noam Chomsky
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I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get…
— Laura Prepon
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I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I…
— Bill Maher
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Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a…
— Gilles Deleuze
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One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs
— David Hilbert
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Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of…
— John B. Watson
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I was building the plane while flying it in the first term,
— Kwame Kilpatrick
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The god of the world is the gold and the silver. The world worships this god. It is all-powerful to them, though they might not…
— Lorenzo Snow
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A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it…
— Edgar Degas
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We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we…
— Johannes Stark
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Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from…
— Jon Krakauer
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It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on…
— Michael Stipe
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The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
— Amanda Ripley
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Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would…
— Richard Hamming
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