Airplane Quotes

Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors.

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

Moderate aspirations lead to a contended life. I don't have to buy the airplane and I can't drive the tank!!

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any relevance to which one.

We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.

Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can't remember the name, but it wasn't even a sad movie. It caught me off guard. I was on an airplane.

I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.

It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.

Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.

Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

I've owned about 18 airplanes over the years, and I've never bought one of them new.

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

I'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars.

We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.

We're heading for a gov. shutdown. This is serious. W/o the gov who will fail to inspect our airplanes? Who will fail to secure our borders? Who will put us 14 trillion dollars in debt?

Superman don't need no seat belt.

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

I was always making things. I made model airplanes and did a number of hands-on activities. I liked creating in some form or another, not realizing what it was all about.

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

If forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an eye on him and nudge him if he falls asleep or point out any mountains looming up ahead.

There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.

Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.

If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'

The best way to fight the terrorists is to have the freest country on earth. You should be able to get on an airplane, and people - that will not possibly happen again.

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.

I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.

The airplane has had a big impact on my life.

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like an airplane.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.

Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.

We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.

One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.