Quotes of Aircraft - somelinesforyou

“ With both airlines, initially there will be a couple of airplanes - two or three airplanes - equipped with this system. ”

- George Cooper

“ Just like when early airplanes were flying in 1910, we didn't know what the benefits are, but we were doing it because it was fun. ”

- Burt Rutan

“ Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful. ”

- Casey Stengel

“ We could ground all airplanes and not have any more airplane crashes,... The key is whether the good uses of the Net outweigh the bad. Life is like that. You just have to take the good with the bad. ”

- Bruce Schneier

“ I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. ”

- Francis Gary Power

“ There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane. ”

- Satchel Paige

“ Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. ”

- Marshal Ferdinand Foch

“ If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. ”

- Forster

“ Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be. ”

- LtGen Adolf Galland

“ 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

“ There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war. Retiring an aircraft carrier more than a decade early isn't in the best interest of the nation at this time. ”

- Bill Nelson

“ I am convinced that the nation requires more than one Atlantic coast naval station capable of home-porting nuclear aircraft carriers as a matter of strategic urgency and risk mitigation. ”

- Bill Nelson

“ The image of Jan Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter… siting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal… the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine. ”

- Jane Fonda

“ I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. ”

- Dean Acheson

“ There are only two types of aircraft fighters and targets. ”

- Doyle Nicholson

“ I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of "The Look.". ”

- Lauren Bacall

“ We do not intend to limit content diversity on any of our systems. If we limit content, if we do not promote a diversity of voices... then consumers will waste no time migrating to other Internet and media services. ”

- Steve Case

“ If you dont have a parent or an adult, a teacher or a mentor really see you, really love you, 'Yes, there are things you do I dont like, but youre fantastic, youre good enough. I love you.' If that never happens to a child, the child assumes its her fault and tries to compensate for it. ”

- Jane Fonda

“ Between three and six individuals on each of the hijacked airplanes were involved,... We know that they were trained and technically proficient, that they were trained in the United States to fly, some of them at least, to fly these airplanes, and they flew them with deadly accuracy. ”

- John Ashcroft

“ Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs… I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time. ”

- Robbie Williams

“ Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance. ”

- Paul Martin

“ The problem of dealing with conflict on a large, sort of society-wide scale, is a bit analogous to building a complex aircraft. You need a whole lot of different parts. You can't fly an airplane with just a jet engine, you need wings, you needs control surfaces, you need avionics, you need a seat for the pilot, fuel tanks, all sorts of stuff. ”

- Guy Burgess
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