41 Quotes About Airplanes

At least when I get on the Boston train I have a good chance of landing in the South StationAnd not in that part of the daily press which is reserved for victims of aviation.

At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.

An airplane crossed the sky, and she imagined its interior-people packed in rows like eggs in a carton, the chemical smell of the toilets, pretzels in foil pouches, cans hiss-popping open, black oval of night sky embedded in the rattling walls. How strange that something so drab, so confined, so stifling with sour exhalations and the fumes of indifferent machinery might be mistaken for a star.

[...] grew up here, in what show business people, which now includes our best-known politicians and so-called journalists, often call 'flyover country.' We are somewhere between television cameras in Washington DC, and New York, and Los Angeles. Please join me in saying to the undersides of their airplanes, 'Go to hell.

Too bad the Nazis aren't vampires, Ollie thought. At least with vampires, they could be deterred with holy water, crosses, and cloves of garlic. But with Nazis, we need antiaircraft guns, Hurricanes, and Spitfires. Ollie glanced back at the lofts. And maybe pigeons.

A few languid clouds moved inland over our heads. A little high plane was gamboling among them like a terrier in a henyard.

They hit me raw, hard, real,the words you say (and don't)as I leave to catch my flight.But in real life airports,no one is chasing anyoneto ask for a longer story.And on real life airplanes,it is too loud for anyoneto hear anyone else cry.

POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENTFACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departureKamil Ali

If Tesla autopilot cars were airplanes, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would have grounded them.