Airplane Quotes

• Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Achievement
  • Negative
  • Overcoming

• Later I helped some boys build Southern California’s first model airplane powered by a (hand-built ) gasoline engine.

  

  Albert Scott Crossfield
  • Build
  • Airplane
  • Helped

• As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Remember
  • Morning
  • Taken

• I don't sit down with a goal of writing. I read books or magazines. I watch TV. I go to the doctor. I get on airplanes. I live a normal life and sometimes I'll notice something or read things or experience things.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Sometimes

• When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Thinking
  • Serious
  • 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.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Remember
  • Couple
  • Week

• My father modestly referred to himself as the Great Santini when we were growing up. And he took it - I later learned he had seen a high-wire aerialist when he was a boy, and he was up doing acrobatics in his airplane, and when he came down one time - when was a young lieutenant - he said, I was better than the Great Santini today. And some of the other pilots heard it, and the nickname stuck.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Father
  • Today
  • Boys

• It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

  

  Carolyn McCarthy
  • Country
  • Children
  • Real

• Remember, you fly an airplane with you head, not your hands and feet.

  

  Bevo Howard
  • Remember
  • Hands
  • Airplane

• I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

  

  Michael Trucco
  • Interest
  • Birthday
  • Confronting

• Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now, if you get on an airplane to the U.S. and claim asylum...when you arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, they will say to you, 'OK, we'll give you a hearing on whether you deserve asylum. Show up in a year.' And two-thirds of the people never show up.

  

  Charles Schumer
  • Immigration
  • Deserve
  • Careful

• If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane.

  

  David Sills
  • Home
  • Happens
  • Missionary

• 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.

  

  Richard Perle
  • Soldier
  • Commander
  • Operational

• We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Children
  • Distance
  • Airplane

• I think WCW will kill any kind of joy in your life. I think I started hating money. The money they paid me was insane, but I would be off and fly first-class airplane, luxury cars and hotels, and then arrive at the arena and have Eric Bischoff tell you 5-10 minutes after 6 P.M. that you are off tonight.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Money
  • Joy
  • Hotels

• An airplane cabin isn't the first place people think of when they choose an exhibition space, but I'm all for doing things differently.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Space
  • Choose
  • Airplane

• I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

  

  Michael P. Anderson
  • Military
  • Interest
  • Wanted

• Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • People
  • Book
  • House

• Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Enemy
  • Challenges
  • Bomb

• I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Stage
  • Airplane
  • Hotel

• Want to fire up a liberal? Dare to suggest that a nervous looking young Middle Eastern man standing in a TSA line to get on an airplane should be scrutinized.

  

  Mike Gallagher
  • Middle
  • Standing
  • Liberal

• Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Beautiful
  • Air
  • Airplane

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