Best 284 quotes in «flight quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

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

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.

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

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

How do you get off a non-stop flight?

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss 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 have seized the light. I have arrested its 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 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.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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’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.

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 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.