Best 284 quotes in «flight quotes» category

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

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

Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

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

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

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

How do you get off a non-stop flight?

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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