Airplane Quote by John Updike Download Open image “Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue.” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Airplane Cellar Glue Hobbies Place Smell Take
There are not many things I find more disgusting than recycled airplane air. — Brittany Bowe Copy Share Image
Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it's something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol, or maybe… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people in the aviation business, particularly ones who will fly to places where your boots get dirty when you… — Erik Prince Copy Share Image
I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
“The place smelled of piss and mildew and stale beer. There was something else, too: the acrid sweat of the strung out—a smell that… — Erik Storey Copy Share Image
I don’t know what I saw. It could’ve been a hallucination. You get those from sniffing glue.” “You’ve never sniffed glue!” “I’ve smelled glue,”… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
“Originally, the cellar served primarily as a coal store. Today it holds the boiler, idle suitcases, out-of-season sporting equipment, and many sealed cardboard boxes… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I made an airplane out of stone. . . I always did like staying home. — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug it as it were to one side does self-consciousness dissolve and sleep with its healing, brilliantly detailed fictions pour in upon the jittery spirit. Falling asleep is a study in trust. Likewise, religion tries to put… — John Updike Copy Share
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I shoot in black and white, sometimes color, sometimes if it looks good I shoot out the window of the airplanes or whatever, anything… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money. — Marc Reisner Copy Share Image
We live in a world where it has become politically correct to avoid absolutes. Many want all religions to be given the same honor, and all gods regarded as equally true and equally fictitious. But take these same people, who want fuzzy, all-inclusive thinking in spiritual matters, and put them on an airplane. You will find they insist on a… — Anonymous Copy Share
The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly. — Len Morgan Copy Share Image
I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap. I figured out how to jam their person-tracking technology. I can turn innocent people into suspects and turn guilty people into innocents in their eyes. I could get metal onto an airplane or beat a… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share
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… — George Nethercutt Copy Share Image
I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane...I told the doctor, I said,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I'm sure the most favorite airplane in my career would still be the Sabre F86 cleft wing , which allowed me to be credited… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
