Top 1200 Paper Airplanes Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink were all exported. It was like a piece of cheese from that country, you could touch it, feel it, smell it, and it was different.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I am still a lover of paper books. One of my first jobs was in a bookstore, and I still like to be able to write in a margin and feel the paper. Once inside of a digital device, I end up losing things.

My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own.

I suppose I built my share of model airplanes, but I can't remember that I was a flying fanatic.

It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

In an effort to look cool, I am going to stop shouting Hey, you! at airplanes.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

I always liked airplanes, and I decided I was going to go to school to study them.

In many offices it could take several days to find a paper chart and some we'll never find. Ten percent of the paper records are never found. So you have this huge delay in time.

You might be a redneck if the antenna on your truck is a danger to low flying airplanes.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.

Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution.

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

I'd been working since I was eleven so I could buy my own comic books. I was that kid knocking on your door, selling subscriptions to the paper and crying because I wasn't going to sell that last paper that would allow me to go to Disneyland.

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

As a pilot, I can tell you drones may be a lot of things; airplanes they are not.

Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission.

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

Growing up in the 1960s, I can't remember a time when I wasn't fascinated by airplanes and rockets.

I am proud that everybody is knowing me on the streets and airplanes and airports.

Paper is my best friend and paper seller is my worst friend!

I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.

We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the wordsthat smother the stonewith imagined birds,reams of them, flownfrom the mind of the shaper.Mine, said the scissors,mine all the knivesgashing through paper'sethereal lives;nothing's so properas tattering wishes.As stone crushes scissors,as paper snuffs stoneand scissors cut paper,all end alone.So heap up your paperand scissor your wishesand uproot the stonefrom the top of the hill.They all end aloneas you will, you will.

I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore?

An attempt by the Mongols to introduce paper money in Persia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries flopped because no one would accept it. The public had no confidence in the paper money despite the awesomely coercive decrees that always marked Mongol rule.

The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

I talk about airplanes and things like that while my scars are on clear view.

Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have.

Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

I worked a full-time job at a place call Caraustar. We recycle paper, then through recycled paper, we take it and we make V board out of it. If you buy a TV, a new couch, you see these little V boards that make like a V.

This is just a hunch, but I bet airplanes think helicopters are assholes.

I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.

We still have a problem here in this country of access to airports and airplanes [for terrorists].

I grew up in the traditional American newspaper world with a morning paper and an afternoon paper competing with each other beat by beat by beat. It was the most fun I've ever had. And it was great for journalism.

In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes.

More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around?

Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows I - I show pictures of my airplanes.

I was talking to my dad, who's a neurosurgeon. He had this academic paper he wanted to publish. Journals take about 18 months to publish a paper, and he just wanted to get things up there.

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all.

I love a nicely designed paper comic but I don't need to own them. To me, comics are about reading them. If I can get that on a tablet and not have another pile of paper under my coffee table, then I will opt for digital.

I worked in a paper factory the week after I left school. I had loads of paper cuts all over my hands and the pay was dreadful. On my third day I was like, 'Can I leave early? I've got an audition for Coronation Street.' They said yes and I never went back.

Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks.

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Gold is not less but more rational than paper money. Money holds value so long as it is in limited supply; gold will always be in limited supply, and would require real resources to produce even from the sea; paper and printing ink are not in limited supply. The gold system is much closer to a modern automatic scientific control system than the crude and relatively unstable system of paper.

Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.

Airplanes are a good place to concentrate because you get no emails, no phone calls.