Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean. — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work. — Pierre-Georges Latecoere Copy Share Image
Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight. — Takuboku Ishikawa Copy Share Image
I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can… — William Langewiesche Copy Share Image
Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
“Every flight is a gamble. If we don’t smash into a cloud bound hillside, we might be picked off like a defenceless… — Kate Lord Brown Copy Share Image
The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The planes are crowded and noisy and late, and everybody hates everybody. If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding… — Horace Copy Share Image
Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts… — Hermann E. Ott Copy Share Image
Comedy clubs are a bit more expensive. That's the problem with some of these places. But the flipside of that is, if… — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
In 2006, I became the fist American to be allowed to go visit their astronaut center in China in Beijing. I think… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed… — Edward E. Barnard Copy Share Image
“[A]s my breath begins to quiet in the silent woods, I pick up a squeaking, creaking sound, growing steadily louder, that makes… — John Jerome Copy Share Image
I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going… — Pierre Clostermann Copy Share Image
To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
Richard Branson is probably the most visible of the private commercial space guys, and what is venture, Virgin Galactic is about is… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
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