Leap and grow your wings on the way down

A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.

— Patricia Schroeder

We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all…

— Wangechi Mutu

The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.…

— William Henry Pickering

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

— Mardy Grothe

I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel,' anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.'

— Cheryl Ladd

Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and…

— Guy Murchie

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

— Lord Byron

“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist…

— Richard Dawkins

« He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast…

— Ilona Andrews

Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying…

— Christian Louboutin

Yeah, I'm the Brit who isn't Lewis Hamilton that woke up and realised he was good. I got that tag because I was young,…

— Jenson Button

I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all…

— Carrie Fisher

“LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I haven't long to live. TREETOPS, ROUNDED AND ROUGH: That's probably true. LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I won't even make it to…

— Dave Eggers

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan