Flight Quotes · Page 5

Stories are flight simulators for our brains.

— Chip Heath

There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!

— Roscoe Turner

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

— Cecil Day-Lewis

Private flights back home, no stop-over

— Drake

“There is a flight of fancy but work your faith.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket.

— Bevo Howard

Hope you have a safe, stab-free flight.

— Anonymous

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

— Ovid

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.

— William C. Bryant

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

— Simon Newcomb

We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.

— Chris Mooney

I still have my [flight] license and I can still pass a flight physical.

— John Glenn

“Tell your mother the Law of Stolen Flight.' 'Only flame, and things with wings. All the rest suffer stings.”

— Jonathan Carroll

“You always drop by, to en- lighten my mind, when my wings are feeling heavy & i've forgotten how to fly.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

— Wayne Rooney

Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.

— Judith Lynne Hanna

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the…

— Michael Haneke

I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the…

— John W. Campbell

There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on…

— David Letterman

If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me…

— Franklyn Ajaye

Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract…

— Gilles Deleuze

VR really changes everything for flight because the old simulators for the PC were 2D, and you couldn't look around inside the…

— Ernest Cline

“I had a dream about you last night... I think flying saucer activity is pretty easy to explain; if I had one,…

— Marshall Ramsay

In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization,…

— Dan Carter

The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory,…

— Alfred Korzybski

I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point…

— Donald A. Wollheim

It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk on that long beach Everything was withdrawn as far as…

— Elizabeth Bishop

Motherhood takes vanity completely out of the picture. Comfort is the key. When you are coming out of a plane after a…

— Lara Dutta

And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives…

— Lucretius

In most instances, at all costs, do NOT check a bag. Especially during the holiday season. You have more flexibility to switch…

— Beth Mowins

Target launch date for Falcon I maiden flight is Halloween(October 31) from our island launch complex in the Kwajalein Atoll. For potential…

— Elon Musk

“For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing…

— C. JoyBell C

Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the…

— Thomas Merton

Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to…

— Ellen Hopkins

Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane,…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Once, hurrying through a busy airport to get to my gate on time for a connecting flight, I came upon a lady…

— Kathy Troccoli

Are we lost, or are we found at last? On earth we strive for our various needs, because so goes the fundamental…

— Ernest K. Gann

“     Illicit flight Alfa Bravo Charlie quickly reached a predetermined altitude and stopped dead. The passengers on board screamed the way people…

— A.R. Merrydew

On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times…

— Charles Lindbergh