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“There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.”

World Chance Football Moon Flying Cups Managers Soccer Chairman World Cup Wales Blindfolded Concorde

Author:Robbie Savage

“What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?”

Government Order Poor Powerful Periods Patient Reputation Posts Physicians Furniture Lamps Publicity Dazzle Concorde

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.”

Giving Humor Funny Three Hours Extras Luggage Concorde

Author:Bob Hope

“The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the future.”

Knows Moments Lost Right Now Grounded Concorde

Author:Aleksandra Mir

“I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, "Let's finally go to the Moon."”

People Thinking Beautiful Next Steps Moon Eras Jealous Inventing Next Steps Concorde

Author:Aleksandra Mir

“I've made a poster at home. You know the iconic image of Che Guevara, the black and red graphic of his face? I think it's the perfect graphic, the best graphic ever made. I cut a Concorde out and put it over his head so it's Che looking up and the Concorde going by. Both are dead, maybe obsolete.”

Thinking Knows Made Home Faces Black Perfect Cutting Red Graphic Obsolete Posters Iconic Concorde

Author:Aleksandra Mir

“Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia. Eventually, it will just be impossible to fly - normal flights will become as expensive as flying with the Concorde.”

Energy Grows Impossible Normal Resources Hunger China Decades Flying Flight Expensive Asia Diminish Concorde

Author:Hermann E. Ott

“I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.”

Ifs Should Three Hours Humorous Witty Paris Towers Eiffel Tower Eiffel Concorde

Author:Woody Allen

“I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead.”

Ifs Knows Should Done Facts Would Be Three Waiting Hours Perfect Alive Minutes New York Six Humorous Witty Paris Towers Things Done Eiffel Tower Eiffel Concorde

Book:Woody Allen: Interviews

Source: Woody Allen: Interviews

“We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.”

Travel Buying Airplane Tickets Funny Travel Aeroplanes Concorde

Author:Eva Herzigova

“It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle.”

Looks Miracle Flight Look Up Aviation Unreasonable Concorde

Author:Brian Trubshaw

“I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.”

Film Nice New York Very Nice Nice Day Concorde

Author:Julie Harris

“To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.”

Sells Fortune Billions Aviation Predictions Carrying On Public Money Concorde

Author:Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber

“We will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles an hour orbitally.”

Done Hours Space New York Program Miles Faster Planes Aviation Predictions Tokyo Space Program Concorde

Author:Richard Branson

“If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time.”

Ifs Work Out Concorde

Author:Linda Evangelista