Airplane Quote by Henry Petroski

Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

— Henry Petroski

It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift…

— Anonymous

“And this is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died, we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of…

— Sylvia Plath

There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port!…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

— Jonathan Winters

As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.

— Richard Henry Dana, Jr

When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother's newspaper and, oh, what a shock! The Titanic had gone. The 'unsinkable'…

— Henry Allingham

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

— Plautus

Game day can be emotional, and there are a lot of ups and downs throughout a game, but as a quarterback, you have to…

— Alex Smith

“Papa was right, after all. A ship's crew was like a family, and together we had done what we never could have managed alone.”

— Heather Vogel Frederick

I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star.

— Graeme Base

You be making waves, my ship's here to stay. I got what it takes to swim up in it all day. I want you…

— Pleasure P