What a delightful, lazy, languid time we had whilst we…

Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

— Herman Melville

Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over…

— Homer

Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. ... It is true…

— Otto Lilienthal

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away.…

— Ovid

Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch…

— Neil Gaiman

But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they…

— Mary Oliver

And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the…

— Milan Kundera

“When I went to sleep each night, I imagined myself at the bottom, thousands of feet down, the weight of all that water but…

— David Vann

Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is…

— Twyla Tharp

I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a…

— Annie Lennox

But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that…

— Henrik Ibsen

I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.

— Ewan McGregor

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

— Neil Young

Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think…

— Randall Jarrell

Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don't have…

— Salman Khan