Flight Quotes · Page 21

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

— Albert Einstein

All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.

— Otto Lilienthal

I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.

— Lionel Shriver

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

— Sally Ride

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.

— Treat Williams

I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does.

— Robert Six

Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

— Stephen Coonts

Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to…

— William Barclay

As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see…

— Orlando Bloom

Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or…

— Tryon Edwards

Whenever you get on the plane, the flight attendant will always tell you the name of your pilot. Like anyone goes, Oh,…

— David Spade

As the head of security for an airline, I can't ask my passengers to risk their lives and jump on a terrorist.…

— Isaac Yeffet

Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was…

— Thomas Keneally

There are some discussions taking place in the United Arab Emirates about the prospects of a long-haul flight into Belfast.

— Martin McGuinness

Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece…

— Victor Hugo

One knew, of course, that it was not the red cape any more than it was the boots, the tights, the trunks,…

— Michael Chabon

In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after…

— Natasha Trethewey

When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping…

— Richard Benjamin

A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that…

— Brendan I. Koerner

The pilot is still the pilot, whether he is at a remote console or on the flight deck. With the potential for…

— Mark Rosenker

Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens…

— Ben Parr

I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to…

— Francois Laurent d'Arlandes

Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail, Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay; Though darken'd in this poor life…

— James Gates Percival

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.

— Alexandre Dumas

Drink a lot of water, wear big sunglasses, and don't wear make-up on the flight.

— Doutzen Kroes

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

— Susan Sontag

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

— Richard Bach

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

— Jane Byrne

Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.

— Joseph Murray

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.

— Pierre-Georges Latecoere

“flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.”

— Herman Melville

Essentially 'Flight' is just an adventure of multiple realities.

— Vanna Bonta

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

— Bill Vaughan

One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.

— Clive Barnes

Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest.

— Douglas Fairbanks

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

— Edward Abbey

When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.

— Duncan Campbell Scott