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There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes.
It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.
I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.
As a pilot, I can tell you drones may be a lot of things; airplanes they are not.
Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.
Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.
I always liked airplanes, and I decided I was going to go to school to study them.
I am proud that everybody is knowing me on the streets and airplanes and airports.
A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying.
I've owned about 18 airplanes over the years, and I've never bought one of them new.
A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.
I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much.
Airplanes are a good place to concentrate because you get no emails, no phone calls.
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.
When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.
Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.
To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
I love 'Airplane,' and I love 'Naked Gun' and all those films, where you're parodying.
I'd like to jump out of an airplane, but I'm very scared of that. I will have to do it.
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Every time I get on an airplane I figure it's gonna get blown up. You live on the edge.
That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.
My airplanes are necessary machines, as necessary to this business as our meat slicers.
You might be a redneck if the antenna on your truck is a danger to low flying airplanes.
It was absolutely perfect. You can handle this large aircraft as you can handle a bicycle.
Unfortunately, I kind of split between Virginia and living in an airplane. I travel a lot.
Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy.
I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.
If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.
I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?
If you can fly an airplane competently, you can fly it safely even if something does happen.
When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.
I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.
Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.
I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.
Being on a commercial airplane is actually one of the safest places you can be on the planet.
Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.
When I get on the airplane, I put on the eye mask. And I travel a lot so I use it all the time.
My first airplane trip was to Paris. I had this fantasy that I would become a model, and I did!
I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots.
I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.
We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.
I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
I suppose I built my share of model airplanes, but I can't remember that I was a flying fanatic.