#planes

Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#being #down #had #i #i think

So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#discussed #dozens #examples #intentions #knew

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

I mean, I am totally not one of those prudes who believe having sex as a teenager is some kind of mortal sin or social death. I don't have a problem with sex. I just don't happen to be having it. And if I were having sex, I certainly wouldn't be getting it on in an airplane bathroom. Who wants to get down and dirty in a place so . . . cramped and dirty? ↗

— Lauren Morrill

#humor #sex #death

[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let’s buy it what a bargain! ↗

— Anne Carson

#essay #love #poetry #shopping #life

Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#break #cars #else #ethiopia #get

The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay? ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#had #infrastructure #only #pay #planes

If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#bigger #guys #had #led #led zeppelin

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. ↗

— Alice Walker

#being #being used #bombs #contributes #fragile

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters. ↗

— Treat Williams

#helicopters #i #planes #time