Flying Quotes · Page 22

Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

— Kent McCord

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can…

— William Langewiesche

“If your thoughts are as tall as the height of your ceiling, you can’t fly above your room.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.

— Kelly Preston

Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

— Joe Hill

We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't.

— Dana Brunetti

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when…

— Umberto Eco

So many times I've gone flying. I've fallen in audience members' laps, I've fallen down the stairs, I've had a shoe fall…

— Tess Daly

Drifting body it's sole desertion. Flying not yet quite the notion. Am I wrong? Have I run too far to get home?…

— Alice In Chains

“I read somewhere that flying is like throwing your soul into the heavens and racing to catch it as it falls." "I…

— Linda Howard

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong,…

— Joel Osteen

Flying gives me a tremendous sense of freedom and I hope that anyone who wishes to learn has the opportunity to do…

— Shannon Walker

Leaving the house is a big enough occasion for me, so getting on a plane and flying across the world and playing…

— Courtney Barnett

If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic…

— Mary Kingsley

Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were…

— Dwight Longenecker

Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble…

— Charles Rumney Samson

Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I…

— Alan Moore

Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John…

— Anonymous

The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most…

— William Safire

There'll come a time when airplanes are much more efficient when it comes to producing lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions, there'll…

— Dale Jamieson

“If I were to sit on the ocean floor and look toward the sky, I might see a whale or electric eel…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.

— Samuel Hynes

If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.

— Tao Lin

Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.

— Walter O'Brien

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

— Charles Dickens

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

— Jeff Smisek

You are always having to prove something in football whether you are flying or not.

— Jordan Henderson

If you want to fly, you've got to give up the things that weighs you down.

— Savannah Smith

I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.

— Channing Tatum

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

— Neil Armstrong

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

— Dylan Thomas

Flying a kite after your teens is like flying through a time tunnel.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.

— Ernest K. Gann

“All right boys, let’s sail away! Show those bastards how airship pirates fly a ship!”

— Katherine McIntyre

“I'm not falling anymore. I guess you could say that I'm flying.”

— Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Flying out of Calgary it's always bumpy, windy and snowy and clouds everywhere.

— Johnny Gaudreau

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

— Ray Bradbury