Planes Quotes

• I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Humor, Wicked World, Politician

  The Observer, June 17, 1960.

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• My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

  Graham Greene

  Typewriters, Hands, Two

  International Herald Tribune, October 07, 1977.

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• There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

  Richard Branson

  Life, People, Balance

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• I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Atheist, Thinking

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• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  Abraham Maslow

  Determination, Life And Love, Ocean

  "A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective". Book by Eric Shiraev (p. 431),

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• We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.

  Paul Desmond

  Years, Dave, Used

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• They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.

  Minnie Pearl

  Doors, Taking Pictures, Appearance

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• As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

  Robin Gibb

  Anger, Feelings, Despair

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

  Garth Brooks

  Sleep, Relax, Fans

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• The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

  Gene Tierney

  Change, Crash, Plane Crashes

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.

  Robert Goulet

  Years, Champion, One Time

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• I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

  Brenda Lee

  Air, Awful, Crash

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• If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

  Tommy Chong

  Home, Whole, Paid

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• The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.

  Walter Alexander Raleigh

  Heart, Flying, Soul

  Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Henry Albert Jones (1922). “The War in the Air: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force ...”, The Clarendon Press

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• Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane.' I said, 'If I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.'

  Anthony Edwards

  New York, Real, Yesterday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.

  Reba McEntire

  Taken, Two, Flying

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

  Benny Hill

  Funny, Airplane, Cutting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.

  Michael Stipe

  Movie, Oxygen, Cry

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• Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game.

  Al Davis

  Games, Nfl, Waiting

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• It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

  Keren Ann

  Real, Book, Sleep

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• My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

  Linda McCartney

  Mother, Hate, Home

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• I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

  Rick Springfield

  Spiritual, Connected, Time Off

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• I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

  Judy Collins

  Song, Too Much, Knows

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• If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Travel, Airplane

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