Flying Quotes · Page 40

Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international…

— Richard Dawkins

There's nothing quite like flying on a private jet to a fabulous island with some of your girls.

— Dorit Kemsley

“Should I surrender to this bliss? The love, the touch of a child!”

— Andri E. Elia

A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to…

— Billy Campbell

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static…

— Tom Paulin

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

— Bill Hicks

I've been flying forever and I have 19,600 flying hours.

— Wally Funk

“An airplane crossed the sky, and she imagined its interior-people packed in rows like eggs in a carton, the chemical smell of…

— Maggie Shipstead

“Make a change! It's all about you! You may not be able to prevent the bird from flying over your head; but…

— Israelmore Ayivor

A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It…

— Blaise Cendrars

First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke…

— Roger Bacon

'Flying Down to Rio' established RKO as a leader in musical film production throughout the 1930s. The film helped to rescue the…

— Ginger Rogers

Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew…

— David Stockman

[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.

— Khaled Hosseini

I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing…

— Francis Gary Power

I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because…

— Amelia Earhart

My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.

— Kevin A. Ford

I took my first flying lesson in 1967, when I was 16. By October 1968, I had 70 hours in the air…

— Chesley Sullenberger

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these…

— Ann Richards

“When I was a boy, that was all I wanted—to grow a pair of wings and get up into the sky. I…

— Beth Kephart

Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

— Abby Sunderland

Dilla could flip a boring record and make you feel like you were flying.

— Flying Lotus

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in…

— Roald Dahl

“I was 8,569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it…

— Kristine K. Stevens

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never,…

— Deb Caletti