Airplanes Quotes

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.)

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.