Flight Quotes · Page 23

We'd sit outside and watch the stars at night She'd tell me to make a wish I'd wish we both could fly.

— James McMurtry

Nothing feels better then to sit down on a six-hour flight with tired muscles from a workout.

— Christina Tosi

Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

— Elrey Borge Jeppesen

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one

— Wally Schirra

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA…

— Ross Perot

Scissors, screwdrivers and the like pose an unacceptable risk to flight crews as well passengers.

— Dave Reichert

I was so scared the first time I flew the flight attendant called me Whitey.

— Nipsey Russell

Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.

— Joyce Carol Oates

And now 'tis man who dares assault the sky ... And as we come to claim our promised place, Aim only to…

— Thomas Goddard Bergin

All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our hands together,…

— Jens Jensen

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first…

— Jean Cocteau

Beginning with the early dawn of each day, I will radiate joy to everyone I meet. I will be mental sunshine for…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

I studied physics as an undergraduate, and after I graduated from Rice University, I was actually hired at the Johnson Space Center…

— Shannon Walker

When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight…

— Timothy McVeigh

If you take one of the first flights out in the morning, typically the airplane and the crew have arrived the night…

— Chesley Sullenberger

The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated…

— Gerald Holton

I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in…

— Richard Branson

Fear results in fight or flight. Anxiety creates doom and gloom. Fear is the pulse that pounds when you see a coiled…

— Max Lucado

It is hard to imagine, but in a Maryland school, a 13- year old girl was arrested for refusing to say the…

— Henry Giroux

Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100…

— Hanna Reitsch

When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I…

— Louis L'Amour

Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that…

— Terence McKenna

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The…

— Simon Newcomb

Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.

— Michael O'Leary

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp,

— Stella Young

If you really want to fly, you need to let go of the things that weigh you down.

— Anonymous

What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?

— Douglas Adams

Cool...got the middle seat on this next flight. Better chance of making new friends.

— Anonymous

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs

— Marlene Dietrich

Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.

— Bruno Tonioli

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

— Phil Collins

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

— Chuck Yeager

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— Shalini

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

— Alexander Pope

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

— Richard Francis Burton

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

— Swami Paramananda

That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

Damn! This flight attendant treating us like we won these first class tickets in a contest.

— J. B. Smoove

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.

— Annie Fellows Johnston