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Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth. -- Linda Gray
Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all. -- Stephen Fry
The aeroplane will never fly. -- Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service. -- Hugo Eckener
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul. -- Walter Alexander Raleigh
Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible. -- Lord Kelvin
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. -- George Bernard Shaw
There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women. -- Harriet Quimby
Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it. -- Nevil Shute
The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses. -- Walter Alexander Raleigh
What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it. -- Orlando Bloom
As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future. -- J. F. C. Fuller
I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane. -- Al Gore
In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it. -- Philip Gibbs
No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first. -- Chris Hadfield
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing. -- Winston Churchill
The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy! -- Sam Hughes
We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable. -- George Orwell
Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls)." -- Kingsley Amis
If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it. -- Prince Philip
I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky. -- Haile Gebrselassie
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four. -- George Orwell
It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in. -- Tommy Cooper
I think aerobatic pilots make the best pilots because you know, you're just so confident in an aeroplane. If you're gonna get into trouble, I'd rather be with someone that's a skilled aerobatic pilot. -- Janine Shepherd
The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from parcel delivery, taking photographs or conducting schools of flying. -- Harriet Quimby

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