Best 284 quotes in «flight quotes» category

Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities.

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star.

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

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.

Before redeye flights, I drink copious amounts of herbal brews to help me relax and fall asleep after takeoff.

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?

But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.

Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight!

Do we need a top-flight quarterback? Do human beings need air to breath?

Dad, I left my heart up there.

Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

Essentially 'Flight' is just an adventure of multiple realities.

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

Every week I'll be spending money on flights, accommodation, stringing and even things as simple as taxis, meals out and, of course, paying the other members of my team. I'm still very careful, though, with what I'm spending.

Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight.

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.

Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

From the shaken tower A flock of bells take flight, And go with the hour.

From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

How do you get off a non-stop flight?

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

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

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

I actually had four space flights altogether, three times on shuttles. My second flight was really unique for me because I was going back into space, first of all. The first one was like an appetizer at a nice dinner. You know, you want to go up and you want more. So, the second time I got into space, it was neat because I got to actually do two space walks.

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

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 cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

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 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.