1.
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Vladimir Nabokov
2.
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Joseph Priestley
3.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
George Sand
4.
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
Claude Debussy
5.
The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.
Paul Greengrass
7.
How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.
Gavin Pretor-Pinney