Quotes of: Aeroplanes Keyword

When I got home from hospital, and I was in a wheelchair in a plaster body cast, an aeroplane flew over. And I thought to myself, 'Well, if I can't walk, then I might as well fly.' And I was lifted into the aeroplane for the first time. And when I to...

Janine Shepherd

When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobody cared when I did it. Then, to rub salt into my wounds, the customs people ripped my aeroplane to pieces, looking for stuff.

Gary Numan

After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that it should happen in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life.

Nevil Shute

Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) of man's soul; of his determination, thought Mr. Bentl...

Mrs. Dalloway

What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.

Orlando Bloom

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is. It's like if you snapped your fingers and produced a rose but it w...

Among Others

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Bertrand Russell

Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.

Linda Gray

The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Because as much as I dislike her, I would prefer not to have an enemy.

Paper Aeroplanes

The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.

Eddie Rickenbacker

While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in a straight line uncorrected by anything. But the habit of forming conclusions, as they can really be formed in more fruitful...

The Everlasting Man

Father has a fear of flying since that aeroplane crashed into his bedroom.

Living Dead Lovers

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

Nevil Shute

I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

Scilla Elworthy

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

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

H.R.H. Prince Philip

My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both.

Anja Rubik

I just hug her, tell everything is fine, and walk with her to her house. It will be all OK in the end.

Paper Aeroplanes

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

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