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Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore
An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. -- Henry Ford
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. -- Ray Manzarek
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. -- Charles Lindbergh
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. -- Henry Ford
To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless. -- Ted Turner
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. -- Henry Rollins
The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional. -- Paul Greengrass
We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde. -- Eva Herzigova
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you. -- Satchel Paige
I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. -- Lee Child
You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky. -- Amelia Earhart
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s. -- Douglass North
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. -- Robert Benchley
That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie. -- Jeff Bridges
If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie. -- Hal Sparks
When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking. -- Steven Tyler
Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time. -- Paul Dickson
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. -- Sally Ride
I was just starting out acting [doing "Airplane"] and wanted to be taken as a professional, not as an athlete doing a cameo. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.' -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont -- Alberto Santos-Dumont
Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives. -- Socrates
Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago. -- Richard Leakey
We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly. -- Bill Maher
My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit. -- Ted Olson
Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched. -- Method Man
Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick. -- Wally Schirra
I grew up on movies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun. You probably saw it more recently, but as a kid I grew up on them so I loved those kinds of movies. -- Ashley Tisdale
We all had a lot of fun making the film ["Airplane" ], but there weren't a lot of outtakes or cracking up because we all were focused on doing our jobs in a professional manner. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World. -- John Boyd Orr
I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands. -- John Dykstra
Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian. -- David Zucker
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. -- Barack Obama
Scary Movie' was a different type of comedy than I'm used to. I've mostly done sitcoms, so working with David Zucker, who wrote the film and who directed the last two 'Scary Movie's and 'Airplane' and 'Naked Gun,' was a lot of help. -- Ashley Tisdale
I remember seeing Airplane, and even Mel Brooks movies like History of the World Part I, and just really loving that style of movies that make fun of movies. I think it needs to be done. All of these movies are ripe for being poked at. -- Ashley Tisdale
I've never seen 'The Goonies.' I've never seen 'Indiana Jones.' I watched 'UHF' over and over again when I was little, and that was it. I had no time for any other movies. I watched 'Naked Gun,' 'UHF,' and 'Airplane!' over and over. -- Eric Andre
The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall. -- Orville Wright
I'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars. -- Paul Walker
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. -- Charles Lindbergh
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. -- Burt Reynolds
To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. -- Otto Lilienthal
I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. -- Carroll Shelby
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing. -- Chuck Yeager
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
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. -- Jean Kerr
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. -- Mark Kennedy
I love flying so much. I even like airplane food. No one bothers you and your phone never goes off and you can't have emails go through. It's undisturbed. -- Margot Robbie
I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane. -- Gordon Bethune
When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that. -- Gene Roddenberry
I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That's no joke. I have a 'half pipe' in there, too - you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It's awesome. It's the ultimate fantasy. -- Paul Walker
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
Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps. -- Carl Honore
This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.' -- Jack White
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. -- Jackson Pollock
I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight. -- Richard Bach
I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now I sit and watch old' Friends' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' episodes. Walking is good, but here again, technology has interfered. I like to listen to iTunes while I walk home. I guess I don't think anymore. -- Mary Roach
And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you. -- Michael Phelps
....a perfect paper airplane. -- Ellen Hopkins
Never stop flying the airplane. -- Ron Weber
I dont eat anything on an airplane. -- Masaharu Morimoto
It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane. -- Ralph Royce
The poet is stepping out of the airplane. -- Jack Spicer
Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane. -- Karl Kraus
Cougar jokes are now as hackneyed as airplane food. -- Felipe Esparza
Perhaps, mites in airplane is just like human on planet. -- Toba Beta
God forgives man the time spent looking at airplane photos. -- Barrett Tillman
To me, an airplane is a great place to diet. -- Wolfgang Puck
The airplane has had a big impact on my life. -- Jim Courier
I've got a dad who jumps out of an airplane. -- George W. Bush
Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming.. -- Henry Ford
The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen. -- Richard Bach
Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue. -- John Updike
The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Don't get me started on the little airplane name badges," Natalie grumbled. -- Peter Lerangis
There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast! -- Roscoe Turner
I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it. -- Charles Bukowski
Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy. -- Jim Lovell
There are not many things I find more disgusting than recycled airplane air. -- Brittany Bowe
The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin. -- Carmine Gallo
How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it. -- George Murphy
And an airplane of spittle dived into the sea, there were no salivas. -- Tommy Cooper
Remember, you fly an airplane with you head, not your hands and feet. -- Bevo Howard
An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one. -- Len Morgan
I made an airplane out of stone. . . I always did like staying home. -- Shel Silverstein
It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers. -- C. R. Smith
Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward. -- Edward Abbey
When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight. -- Bernhard Schlink
To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant. -- Amanda Bynes
The hard, inescapable reality is that anyone who flies may die in an airplane. -- Stephen Coonts
We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane. -- Eugene Ormandy
Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy. -- Alfred Kahn
Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane. -- Casey Stengel
I put my phone on airplane mode and it didn't fly Worst. Transformer. Ever. -- Ashley Purdy
I'd love to work with Francis Ford Coppola. I met Coppola on an airplane. -- Paul Reubens
Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane? -- Andy Rooney
From a little boat, to a big boat, to a helicopter, to an airplane. -- Kevin Johnson
We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games. -- Steve Yzerman
You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down. -- Reid Hoffman
And I don't want to jump out of an airplane - I've done that. -- John Slattery
Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it. -- Calvin Coolidge
Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs. -- Rita Rudner
Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane. -- Henry Spencer
Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either. -- Clifton Fadiman
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful. -- Casey Stengel
Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane. -- George S. Patton
The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one. -- Wendell Willkie
Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome. -- Ben Mezrich
Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful. -- Casey Stengel
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance. -- Richard Bach
The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you. -- C. Maxwell Stanley
A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying. -- Louise Thaden
An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible. -- Jon Spaihts
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. -- Reid Hoffman
An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. -- Richard Bach
That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people. -- Tracy Kidder
Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it. -- Jonathan Carroll
When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying. -- Donald Wills Douglas
A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on. -- William T. Piper

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