I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if the engine blow up?' 'What if a fool's got a bomb on it?'
The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.
Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and climbed into the cockpit; I did this, however, to be able to say good-bye to the old dear; and I really felt dreadfully sorry to part with her. I get very attached to aeroplanes, and I am one of those people who think that they aren't so inanimate as we are told they are.
What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.
The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.
My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both.
The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.
How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.
The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.
