Flying Quotes · Page 45

In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the…

— Tammy Duckworth

The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of…

— Adrian Bejan

Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?

— Emily Dickinson

Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a…

— Greg Norman

I'm sorry, Mother. It's just that five days of flying with these characters has made me crawl right to the edge of…

— Bryan Davis

When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was…

— Carolina Herrera

I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then…

— Jack Handey

I had a full-time driver, or I would take my Bentley. I'd have big houses in the Hamptons for the summer, taking…

— Molly Bloom

Whenever I watched this movie ["How to Train Your Dragon"], I thought, "That's where I want to be. I want to be…

— Gerard Butler

We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that…

— Bill Whittle

How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment…

— Octave Chanute

The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe…

— Grey Owl

Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older…

— Germaine Greer

“When you have come to the edge of all that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of…

— Graham McNeill

One: There is a low limit of weight [of about] 50 pounds beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly.…

— Joseph LeConte

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

— Muriel Spark

I don't do any exercises when flying but use compression socks and spend as much time as possible lying down. I try…

— Petra Kvitova

If you want your life story to soar to new heights, youve got to clear a path, reduce the time-sinks and burdens…

— Melchor Lim

“When you’ve lost, it’s better to brace for landing than to grasp at strands of air, hoping for a parachute that isn’t…

— Ian Thomas Malone

Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no…

— Christopher Moore

My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who…

— Amelia Earhart

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research…

— Linda M. Godwin

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will…

— Robert Herrick

There's that statement, "A picture is worth a thousand words" - well, I think flying around in Google Earth is worth a…

— Rebecca Moore

I did a short film with Donald Glover for one of his Childish Gambino projects, and Flying Lotus was an actor in…

— Hiro Murai

Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“A,bee,flying,to,the,end,of,the,world, To,find,one,flower,wherein,to,lie,curled, Is,a,Fiction,is,a,lie, That,will,keep,God,in,the,sky.”

— Jose Garcia Villa

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the…

— John Zakour

UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“At least when I get on the Boston train I have a good chance of landing in the South Station And not…

— Ogden Nash

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know…

— Amelia Earhart

Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

— Robertson Davies

I'm not a rock star, I'm not Seane Corne or Shiva Rea or Rodney Yee or Baron (Baptiste) or John Friend, and…

— Beryl Bender Birch

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

— Bill Hicks

There are people like me who are not there yet, who are still the eagle flying high right now, still experiencing more…

— Karan Bajaj

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then…

— Beth Ditto

I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport.…

— John Travolta

I love flying the flag for Irish designers like Joanne Hynes, Simone Rocha, Natalie B Coleman, Lennon Courtney and Helen Steele.

— Laura Whitmore