Airplanes Quotes

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There.

The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets.  It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

The Devil himself had probably re-designed Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.

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