I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. Votes: 3
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyI've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. Votes: 3
Lee ChildIn America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. Votes: 3
Robert BenchleyThat movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie. Votes: 3
Jeff BridgesAirplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time. Votes: 3
Paul DicksonI realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. Votes: 1
Charles LindberghMy movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. Votes: 1
Burt ReynoldsTo invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. Votes: 1
Otto LilienthalI don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. Votes: 1
Carroll ShelbyIt was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers. Votes: 0
C. R. SmithCivilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyThe hard, inescapable reality is that anyone who flies may die in an airplane. Votes: 0
Stephen CoontsMaybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy. Votes: 0
Alfred KahnWhy don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it. Votes: 0
Calvin CoolidgeThe J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you. Votes: 0
C. Maxwell StanleyA pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying. Votes: 0
Louise ThadenFlying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance. Votes: 0
Richard BachSeeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome. Votes: 0
Ben MezrichThe modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one. Votes: 0
Wendell WillkieTanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane. Votes: 0
George S. PattonThat's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people. Votes: 0
Tracy KidderA speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on. Votes: 0
William T. PiperReally, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane. Votes: 0
Cory LidleWhen the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying. Votes: 0
Donald Wills DouglasEvery time I get on an airplane I figure it's gonna get blown up. You live on the edge. Votes: 0
Joan RiversNever get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors. Votes: 0
George CarlinA novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. Votes: 0
David Foster WallaceNow and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things. Votes: 0
Neil ArmstrongLanding the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life. Votes: 0
James LiptonI'd like to jump out of an airplane, but I'm very scared of that. I will have to do it. Votes: 0
Cedric GervaisMy airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. Votes: 0
Richard BachAny time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way. Votes: 0
Garth BrooksI don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets. Votes: 0
Dane CookWe built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done. Votes: 0
Joe SutterOnce I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it. Votes: 0
Rodney DangerfieldWhen I get on the airplane, I put on the eye mask. And I travel a lot so I use it all the time. Votes: 0
Jill StuartSadly, 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. Votes: 3 Richard Leakey
I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more. Votes: 3 Bam Margera
I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment. Votes: 4 Bertrand Piccard
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to. Votes: 3 Harry Reasoner