Best 764 quotes in «flying quotes» category

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go.

I always was fascinated by space and always wanted to learn more about it and wanted to experience it first hand by flying into space. I don't know how it began or where it began. Maybe I was born with it. Maybe it's in my genes.

I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.

I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.

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 ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?

I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

I came to the resolve that the attempt was not only worth trying, but should be tried in the very near future if we wanted at all to keep our flag flying; for I was sure as of my own existence that if another decade was allowed to pass without an endeavour of some kind or another to shake off an unjust yoke, the Irish people would sink into lethargy from which it would be impossible for any patriot . . . to arouse them . . .

I believe there are unidentified flying objects, I'm just not sure who's driving.

I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems like that cost? They're not written vicariously: they come out of actual suffering, real madness.

I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

I definitely knew how to fly. That's something you don't forget. One spaceship is pretty much like another when it comes to flying.

I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.

I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.

I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel - it had sharp candy-cane spires that could easily impale someone. If anyone was ever going to be killed by an Elf Hotel, it would be my parents.

I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't much like driving, either. I prefer to be driven. And, when I'm in London, I don't even like walking on the street. I can never get used to looking the right way when I cross the street.

I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources.

I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe, and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots even request permission to do that.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage.

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.

If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

If falling in love is like taking off or flying, then love is like landing.

I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.

If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to their ankles.

If it's torture flying one airline and [yours] is a pleasant experience, it certainly helps your revenue.

If I were an animal, I'd probably be a bald eagle, since I'm already bald and I love to fish. But I'd probably be a shaky-ass eagle because I'm afraid of flying.

I followed him through the halls of the enormous church until we got to the staff's kitchen. He went to the fridge, opened it, and came out with a bottle of bourbon. He poured some into a coffee cup, drank it down, and poured some more. He offered me the bottle. No, thanks. Aren't you supposed to drink vodka? Aren't you supposed to wear a pointy hat and ride on a flying broomstick? Touche, I said.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

If the lambs were flying, wolves would have also the wings to fly!

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

If we don't take that time (to be romantic), then it's karate, then it's ballet, and then there's Christmas, and then my husband is flying off to tour around the world.