Best 764 quotes in «flying quotes» category

Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.

Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.

Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.

Flying is the best possible thing for women.

Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.

Flying used to be so great but now it's more of a trial.

Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

Flying first class means sitting next to a better class of person I don't want to talk to.

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell.

Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills.

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.

Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.

Flying was certainly formative for me; I have a deep and lasting ease with it as a result.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.

Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.

Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.

Flying to me isn't scary, it's just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard, I'm afraid to fly.

Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.

For a time, the Flying Tigers provided the only victories against the Japanese anywhere in the Far East... This handful of men had shown that the Japanese were not invincible.

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller. Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air. Later when asked what it felt like, I said, "It felt as though angels were pushing".

From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from the feeling of being a sheep startled by anything else it ever encountered, for they were creatures who learned very little on their journey through life, and would be startled to see the sun rising in the morning, and astonished by all the green stuff in the fields.

Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying.

Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.

Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

Going from a short to a feature is like going from crawling to flying. It's a big jump, really. Everything triples - size of crew, budget, shooting days, the cast. Not to mention the stakes - as a first time feature filmmaker so much rides on this film.

His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.

Having three operational vehicles in the fleet affords the shuttle program great schedule flexibility as we move toward flying safely and completing the international space station.

Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

He doesn't have to say it, i feel it too; it's not subtle - like every bell for miles and miles is ringing at once, loud and clanging, hungry ones and tiny, happy, chiming ones, all of them sounding off in this moment. I put my hands around his neck, pull him to me, and then he's kissing me hard and so deep, and i am flying, sailing, soaring.

He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.