Flying Quotes · Page 8

I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I…

— Burt Rutan

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

— Virginia Postrel

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

— Douglas Adams

Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi…

— Yann Martel

I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.

— Jonathan Dimbleby

When your young you can fly, but then trip on clouds because your flying to high.

— Blondie

I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of…

— LL Cool J

I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There's leisure…

— Hanshan

Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.

— P. L. Travers

Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I…

— Fran Lebowitz

The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry…

— Bayard Taylor

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

— Ron Reagan

If you're heading downtown from Centeral Park, my advice is to take the subway. Flying pigs are faster but way more dangerous

— Anonymous

One thing I really like about flying is that it is an activity that my mother and I can do together.

— Shannon Walker

... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all…

— Daniel J. Mitchell

If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying…

— Paul Theroux

Unidentified flying objects are a very serious subject which we must study fully. We appeal to all viewers to send us details…

— Felix Ziegel

This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily…

— Elizabeth Bowen

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go…

— Valentina Tereshkova

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

— Philip Sidney

If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering…

— Lucille Clifton

Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.

— Stephen Coonts

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

— Germaine Greer

I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

— Skeet Ulrich

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

— Mignon McLaughlin