Flight Quotes · Page 19

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

— Anonymous

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.

— Earl Sweatshirt

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

I've been to L.A., it's horrible. Don't waste your money on the flight.

— Andrew Buchan

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

— Isak Dinesen

“Towards the light, towards the light... Have your flight, light is delight...”

— Osman Turkay

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality,

— Robert McKee

Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

— Chiang Kai-shek

“Fight or flight is bullshit. Flight is the default. Fight only happens when flight is not an option. Because fight requires a…

— Shane Kuhn

The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still…

— Immanuel Kant

And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other…

— Elrey Borge Jeppesen

I don't skip practice, I'm not late for meetings, I'm professional in everything I do, you never hear about me not showing…

— Jeff Cunningham

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their…

— William Carlos Williams

I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't…

— Rufus Sewell

There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And…

— Erica Jong

What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we're-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT'S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous…

— Robin McKinley

It's important to be able to simply ask the questions. Every single advance in science comes about because of courage to ask…

— Lynne McTaggart

The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our…

— Simon Newcomb

Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free…

— Georges Besancon

These phantoms speak with human voices . . . able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through…

— Charles Lindbergh

I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm…

— Jason O'Mara

I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on…

— Al Jarreau

Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick…

— Cecil Arthur Lewis

And should I not, had I but known, have flung the machine this way and that, once more to feel it live…

— Cecil Arthur Lewis

From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.

— Elrey Borge Jeppesen

I want to show the world how good Korean players are by playing well in the top flight.

— Park Ji-sung

“Despite her fears she found, The secret to an outstanding life, Is risking the fall, For the possibility of flight.”

— Kyra Jackson

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

— Richard Bach

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

— Adolf Galland

“Decision is the wing that makes dreams to go and grow and flow and fly. No decision, no fulfilled destiny!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.”

— Wendell Berry

Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

— Richard Bach

“That 10-minute flight made her more determined than ever to become a pilot,”

— Jacob Smith

I travel 300 days a year which is tough. Sometimes we're up at 4 A.M. for a flight.

— Maryse Mizanin

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

— Steve Fossett

My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

— Arthur Ashe

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

— Robert Crippen

Do we need a top-flight quarterback? Do human beings need air to breath?

— Jim Harbaugh