You always write it’s bombing, bombing, bombing. It’s not bombing, it’s air support. (, complaining to reporters about their coverage of the Vietnam War.)
Airplanes Quotes
I did not fully understand the dread term ‘terminal illness’ until I saw Heathrow for myself.
The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.
Without luggage or defenses, giving up my car keys and my cash, keeping only a pack of Salem cigarettes the way a child holds on to a toy. I signed myself in where a stranger puts the inked-in X’s.
It’s no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase “As pretty as an airport” appear.
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining?
Superman don’t need no seat belt. (Comment to flight attendant, who replied, “Superman don’t need no airplane, either.”) (Cassius Clay)
Airplanes are most effective against morale. They frighten, they exhaust; they break nerves. They do not, usually in fact, kill many men.
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. Those things aren’t destructable.
One night a jet flew a little bit too close to my house. I was walking from the living room to the kitchen, and the stewardess told me to sit down.
