"Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!"
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Airplane
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Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion."
Joyce Carol Oates
Author, Poet
"If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.'"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Writer, Aviator
"The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."
Kanye West
Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
"What happens if a drone falls right next to her?"
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"My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave."
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"If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes."
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"All was glorious - a cloudless sky above, a most delicious view around. . . . How great is our good fortune! I care not what may be the condition of the earth; it is the sky that is for me now."
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"If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?"
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"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
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"It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles."
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"Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss."
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"The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won."
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"The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch. For I hear all the talk of pollution and war As the people all shout and the airplane roar, So I'm staying in here where it's safe and it's warm, And I WILL NOT HATCH!"
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"My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom."
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"Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all."
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"... four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2--ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously, none of these is designed for combat."
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"Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
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"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."
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"Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it."
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"There is a scientific explanation of healings by the power of Mind over matter which demonstrates that such healings are not miracles, but are within Nature's law which cannot be transcended by either man or God. The Fact that they were beyond man's comprehension did not prove that they were supernatural - for an airplane or radio would have been thought supernatural to dwellers in places far removed even one generation ago."
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"I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it."
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"Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground."
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"Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors."
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"Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills."
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