Best 284 quotes in «flight quotes» category

Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition. (1894)

You must be grounded to take flight.

You leave the heaviness of the ground behind, because here there is only the sky and then, if we could keep flying long enough, the stars.

You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.

You'll always be curious yet deliriously sinking into whatever your nightmare is until you let your wings know you're serious by leaping into your wildest dreams of self love.

You never needed wings to fly, You only needed love.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

You're either very brave or very foolish." "The two aren't far apart, are they?

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

Acting time is like flight time: You can work on a simulator, you can rehearse, but unless you're really in front of the camera or on a stage - that's when you really learn how to work it.

Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime.

Airlines need staff to fly and maintain their aircraft. They need to pay applicable taxes and gate fees. They need to buy new planes, repair worn-out parts, manage their company pension plan, and everything else a service industry has to do. But by far, the largest chunk of their non-payroll operating budget goes to fuel. That's what costs the most for any given flight.

All these think tank experts in Washington at the Woodrow Wilson Center say, "It's really, really a dangerous thing. It's just not right. The president of the United States should never, ever make his first foreign trip to the Middle East! Never, ever. Because it's too fraught with potential disaster. Because President Trump clearly is not sophisticated enough to know the idiosyncrasies, the customs, and the requirements." That's right, no president ever has. Do you know that there has never by a direct flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Tel Aviv until Donald Trump did it? Never.

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

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?

A lot of guys just got off the flight yesterday. There's no excuses but that's the reality.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dad, I left my heart up there.

Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.

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

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?))

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

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

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

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

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.

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

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

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.

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.

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

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.