Best 284 quotes in «flight quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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 have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.

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.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle.

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

It was a love of perpetual flight.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Lean forward into your life... catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life.

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

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.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight or flight thing.

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.

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.

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me he is obsessed with.

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

My wife will tell you that I'm very particular and it's annoying for other people. I eat the same thing every day. I go to the gym at the same time every day. I go to L.A. all the time, so I take that same 9:30 flight. I will not take another one.

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

On a flight of emotion there's wonder and bliss, but beware of a landing that may go amiss.

On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?

Private flights back home, no stop-over