Flying Quotes · Page 19

“Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. Over”

— Ray Bradbury

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

— Joseph Conrad

When I was a rookie, I was kind of just flying, trying to make plays.

— Bobby Wagner

There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.

— Theo Cowan

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term,

— Kwame Kilpatrick

Sometimes you've gotta fall before you fly. We're gonna work it out.

— Sleeping With Sirens

Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels.

— Ry Cooder

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

— Victor Hugo

Right. Vampires. But how do they get inside?" "They fly" ... "We dont fly," Clary felt impelled to point out. "No," Jace…

— Cassandra Clare

Has it ever occurred to you that you might be delusional?' That's what the psychiatrist said, but I think he's wrong. There's…

— Janet Evanovich

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go…

— Samuel Butler

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

— O. Henry

Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.

— Rick Riordan

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying…

— Virginia Postrel

“And without violating momentum laws, you cannot spontaneously levitate and hover above the ground, whether or not you are seated in the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the…

— Joe Scarborough

It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither…

— Robert James Waller

In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in…

— Chris Hadfield

I've done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was nice because flying is…

— Karl Pilkington

I had a dream about a motorcycle," said Harry, remembering suddenly. "It was flying." Uncle Vernon nearly crashed into the car in…

— Anonymous

To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house…

— Cyrano de Bergerac

I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design.…

— Richard Dawkins

I think there are three types of actors. There are the ones that do the ego thing, which is "I'm never going…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening…

— Anne Rice

The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport.

— Orville Wright

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

— John Frusciante

You have to remember that whatever pressure there is flying around, most of it is on the home team.

— Ben Morgan

By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.

— Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

I love the traveling, of course. Not the flying, but the actual traveling.

— Lara Stone

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

— Martin Luther

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

— Amelia Earhart

If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You've got nothing to lose.

— Anonymous

When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten.

— Robert Livingston

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.

— Walter Scott

There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield.

— Lewis Howard Latimer

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm flying to China and Japan - if you think Beckham is a big name, you should see me there.

— Phil Taylor

With the Germs, every night's a little mini-riot, bottles flying at my head.

— Pat Smear

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

— Barry Goldwater

Two songs I like are 'High Flying Adored' and 'Another Suitcase Another Hall,' both from 'Evita.'

— Tim Rice