Flight Quotes · Page 3

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

— Otto Lilienthal

i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine…

— Charles Bukowski

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

— Gary Zukav

“Blood is everywhere.. Vultures take shelter beneath the tanks; for the fumed sky is unsafe for their avian flight to prey on…

— Munia Khan

Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.

— Alessandro Baricco

[What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if…

— Ayn Rand

This is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard flight...one, from...here to there. We'll be cruising at a height of ten feet, going up…

— Eddie Izzard

I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding…

— Horace

Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I…

— Anonymous

These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very…

— Walter Bradford Cannon

Simplicate, and add lightness!

— William Bushnell Stout

Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

I slather Egyptian Magic cream all over my face on overnight flights to keep my skin hydrated.

— Kate Hudson

For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.…

— Adolf Galland

If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.

— Boman Irani

I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and…

— Gayle King

Today Obama was seen leaving the White House in a nurse's uniform on a flight to Cuba to smother Castro with a…

— Bill Maher

I have found that women are not only just as much interested as men are in flying, but apparently have less fear…

— Katherine Stinson

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

— Victor Hugo

At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of…

— Charles Lindbergh

All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon…

— Charles Dickens

“Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything;…

— C. JoyBell C

I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler;…

— Olaf Stapledon

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

— Gerald Holton