Best 764 quotes in «flying quotes» category

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.

Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works.

Don't overdo the booze especially while flying - just because it's there doesn't mean you need to drink it. Everything in moderation.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive.

During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.

Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.

Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that you are in fact flying in the space at that crazy speed!

Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative sense. If a therapy or treatment is anything more than a placebo, properly conducted double-blind trials, statistically analyzed, will eventually bring it through with flying colours. Many candidates for recognition as orthodox medicines fail the test and are summarily dropped. The alternative label should not (though, alas, it does) provide immunity from the same fate.

Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.

Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see the rabbit and you zoom down and you grab it. That just happens naturally in a size that fits very well with how the human body works. Got to have a large display and it has to be portable.

Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath.

Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.

Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and they turn it to their purposes and make a living out of it, then they become not "that person," but they become "that writer" or "that doctor" or "that supervisor.

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

Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.

Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in the air!

Everything going through my head was like, "Just last month or so, I was just flying into L.A. and things were just getting started with recording my album, and then here it is, wow, boom, here I am in a movie." And then with Leonardo DiCaprio! The whole experience was cool and that moment was so epic for me.

Everything was a miracle until we solved it. ... the first man who ever saw a flying fish probably thought he was witnessing a miracle - and the first man who ever described a flying fish was doubtless called a liar.

Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune.

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 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.

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.

falling not flying one lost muddy shoe like the lost worlds between me and you

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.

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 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.