Best 284 quotes in «flight quotes» category

I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.

I am very shy. If I am flying British Airways and the airhostess asks me two questions, and I don't understand her accent - I will go hungry for the entire flight.

I attended a big human space flight conference in Beijing and I was going as myself. And really, there weren't any NASA astronauts there, I was the only so-called American Astronaut there. We had astronauts from most of the other countries, certainly from Russia, from France, from Japan, several other countries, but it was a little bit odd because here we are at an international gathering of a lot of astronauts and I'm talking about somewhere upwards of 30 or so astronauts, and I'm the only American. And I wasn't even there in an official capacity.

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

I don't know of any issues associated with alcohol before flight.

If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me an A.

I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.

I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.

I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.

If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.

I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.

If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

I led a sheltered life. I didn't know how to book a flight.

I'm sure there are managers who have had far greater financial success. But my companies such as easyJet have changed the lives of many people. We haven't just made flights affordable for a lot of people.

I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the money-man's heartlessness, but not the man. I love the swallow's flight, and I love the swallow; the urchin's gleam of tenderness, and the urchin.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.

I remember after 9/11, I started - I was working quite a bit in Vancouver. And then I realized I would go to catch my flight, and it would take me like 20 minutes to get cleared to fly, like, every time. I'm like, what is going on?

I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too.

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

I still have my [flight] license and I can still pass a flight physical.

I tell ya when I fly, I don't get no respect. I took one of those cheap flights, no frills. I finished eatin' and had to do the dishes.

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.

It is not a bad sport, but there's no place to go.

It’s like flight, you’re flying… When you’re hitting something that’s turning you on, you get goose bumps. It’s a rush. It’s very exciting and that’s what I’m hoping to do to the audience.

It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness.

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

It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on!

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.

It was a love of perpetual flight.

I was shooting Beyond Redemption, I started shooting American Horror Story, so I was going back and forth between Northern California and LA. That was not bad at all - that flight is like getting on the subway, it's nothing. And then during rehearsals.