And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels… — Pierre Clostermann Copy Share Image
Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I found myself in Zurich Airport. I'd done a TV show, oddly enough, with Mavis Staples. That's the way they do it… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine. — Wayne Rooney Copy Share Image
Yes, I will spend the livelong day With Nature in this month of May; And sit beneath the trees, and share My… — W. H. Davies 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
The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If you would've asked me about getting a pilot's license before 2005, I'd say you were crazy. After I graduated college, a… — Jessica Cox Copy Share Image
I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Edward Snowden's real "crime" is that he demonstrated how knowledge can be used to empower people, to get them to think as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I was the most emotional of the flight directors. Space really got me all honked up. — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the amateur pilot must step into obnoxious levels of confidence, until the stomach adjusts to its new seat in the cockpit.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of… — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
It's much better to talk about the media as a system of propaganda and abuse, of manufactured consent, than it is to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“I swing like a pendulum between the darkness and the light, sometimes it feels like gallows other times it feels like flight.” — Collette O'Mahony Copy Share Image
I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy:… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
I obsess and fantasize about whatever attractive men may be on the flight. Though these days the pickings are lean. No one… — Vaginal Davis Copy Share Image
