#plane

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#available #back #between #british #bureaucratic

It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked. ↗

— Carolyn McCarthy

#allowed #asked #board #children #common

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. ↗

— George McGovern

#close-up #i #lucky #never #plane

The sky seemed filled with diving planes and the black bursts of exploding antiaircraft shells. ↗

— Dorie Miller

#bursts #diving #exploding #filled #planes

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. ↗

— Antonio Gaudi

#certain #color #energetic #great #making

The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#humorous #sex #humor

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #geniuses #literature #literature-quotes #ourselves

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#carlyle #change #christian #comparison #direction

Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game. ↗

— Al Davis

#get #plane #up #us #waiting

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. ↗