Takeoff Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.
— Anthony Bourdain
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There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.
— Elon Musk
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Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing…
— James Salter
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It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine…
— Richard Bach
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You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was…
— Dennis Hopper
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I would like to fly in a professional like manners one of the big airliners. I have to made my mind which of the followwing:…
— Zacarias Moussaoui
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Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is routine. In a…
— Bernard Ziegler
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Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew fourengines bombers during World War II. He was in…
— Len Morgan
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If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.
— John Cleese
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How come, just as the rocket is launching, the astronauts don't also shoot some fireworks out the window? It would make the whole takeoff look…
— Jack Handey
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If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who…
— Will Schwalbe
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The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
— Dallas Willard
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She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it…
— Ted Olson
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I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do…
— Mark Steyn
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I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.
— Eva Herzigova
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I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe,…
— Chanel Iman
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If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But…
— John Cleese
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Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces…
— David Shore
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Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use…
— Bil Keane
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On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod…
— Margaret Heffernan
Who Wrote These Takeoff Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Takeoff Quotes as follows: