Just try and remember," I said slowly," that if God had intended men to fly He'd have given us wings. So all… — Gavin Lyall Copy Share Image
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There is a danger in our modern practice of using embedded journalism. As there is less and less money available for journalism… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
My husband and I don't worry about each other the way we might if we didn't have similar jobs. I sometimes get… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“Nobody wants to sit next to a fat person on a plane. Don't think we don't know. That's why - to return… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“The only controls available to those on board were two push-buttons on the center post of the cabin -- one labeled on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
I came to admire this machine which could lift virtually any load strapped to its back and carry it anywhere in any… — Len Morgan Copy Share Image
By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Fear results in fight or flight. Anxiety creates doom and gloom. Fear is the pulse that pounds when you see a coiled… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
It is hard to imagine, but in a Maryland school, a 13- year old girl was arrested for refusing to say the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100… — Hanna Reitsch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And a united Europe will also manage to send hundreds of thousands of migrants, who don't have the right to asylum, back… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended ... that Congress… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In selling his scheme, Obama has been promoting the myth that our system is no better than those of other advanced nations.… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Nowadays a businessman can go from his office straight to the airport, get into his airplane and fly six hundred or seven… — Percy Knauth Copy Share Image
“Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow, Lift me up in your love as a light wind lifts… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be part of something that would radically change the world. . . . People forget the power of… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the first person… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
One knew, of course, that it was not the red cape any more than it was the boots, the tights, the trunks,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The pilot is still the pilot, whether he is at a remote console or on the flight deck. With the potential for… — Mark Rosenker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
A lot of producers and creative types want to see you be you. Throw something else out there and show them where… — Michael Mosley Copy Share Image
Men are four; He who knows and knows not that he knows. He is asleep; wake him. He who knows not and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest,… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
