On the first flight test of any spacecraft, you're going to find surprises. — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting. — Michael Parfit Copy Share Image
I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight. — Boman Irani Copy Share Image
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My worst flight was with the Indonesian carrier Garuda from Australia to Bali, which was just awful. — John Torode Copy Share Image
Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Once this key conflict is eased, it will have a huge impact on the world. It will take time to find a… — Mathias Rust Copy Share Image
Flight attendants all over the world saw 'Sex and the City.' Doesn't matter what country you are in. The flight attendants know… — Ron Livingston Copy Share Image
When you've been on the road and you just get off a flight and you're super tired but you have to do… — Ruel Copy Share Image
I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Ups and downs are part and parcel of life. It's sometimes like a journey in an aeroplane. During an air flight, heavy… — Chandrababu VS Copy Share Image
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &… — Plato Copy Share Image
Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye,… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
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
The space station mission was kind of the culmination of all of my experience of being a NASA Astronaut, so it had… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t even certain if my wings were meant for flight. I hadn’t exactly had any luck with it the one time… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
“Being in flight is one of the most unnatural, extraordinary, ordinary experiences of modern life. When we climb to 30,000 feet, our… — Phillip Kalantzis-Cope Copy Share Image
I am from many places. I am from a hike across Tuscany...waves of golden wheat undulating on the hills...tractors plowing new vineyards...taxi… — Marie Bradby Copy Share Image
“It now lately sometimes seemed like a kind of black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
