Flying Quotes · Page 17

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

— Nigel Kneale

I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.

— James Cosmo

Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

— Elizabeth Bishop

If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.

— Tammy Duckworth

I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known…

— Linda Finch

Some can't realize the difference between Falling & Flying as long as they are swallowing air

— Rashad Kreidieh

One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.

— Elizabeth Wein

My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer

— Kylie Bax

I flew helicopters, and I loved flying helicopters on the East Coast when I did a couple of deployments out to the…

— Sunita Williams

The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I…

— Arthur P. Warner

Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with…

— Peter Diamandis

Well, 'aerospace' was really not a name in my young life. Flying airplanes was. And I got my first try at flying…

— Wally Funk

In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must…

— Anonymous

Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who…

— Marianne Williamson

“The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist…

— Scott Lynch

Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors…

— Ernest K. Gann

I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and…

— Bill Gates

I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying…

— Barbara Fialho

As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who…

— Auguste Piccard

The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern…

— William Henry Pickering

If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a…

— Dave Barry

There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face…

— Robin Olds

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Christmas 2022 revealed the hazards of flying budget airlines.”

— Steven Magee

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the flying FUCKS I don't give!

— Jerett Parker

My butterflies are still going strong. I just hope they are flying in formation.

— Larry Mize

I’d like to have the flying car, I think that’d be really cool.

— Rupert Grint

“its better to fly down than to fly high because when you fall down you its more regretful that you accept.”

— Angela Relato

“As an altitude researcher, I know the air turbulence is getting worse every year.”

— Steven Magee

you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD

— Ellen Hopkins

A good friend doesn't try to break up a fight. A good friend comes in with a flying kick.

— Renzo Gracie

In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Don't know where I'm going all I know is I'm flying and that's as real as it gets.

— Wiz Khalifa

I love the idea that I can change the worst possible thing to the best possible thing: dying to flying.

— Dean Potter

...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there.

— Joshua Slocum

Beauty seen is as a bee busy buzzing; Not bothered. Attract it's attention, both sting's are never forgotten.

— Denise Clark

My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.

— Alexander Payne

Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.

— Bill Walsh