The reason I'm scared of flying is because I'm not in charge. Being so far out of control terrifies me. — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
The soaring pilot makes an aerial excursion, not an incursion. His passage leaves a whisper, not a shriek. — Richard Miller Copy Share Image
“One goes up in a plane knowing, sometimes, that not all of you is going to come down.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
'Unskilled' pilots are always found in the wreckage with their hand around the microphone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem with airports is that we go there when we need to catch a plane - and because it's so difficult… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
When I'm on a plane, I am the annoying person humming into my phone. Sitting there static with nothing to do, a… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
“When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight. Airplanes don’t fall out of the sky like stones.… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who… — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my… — Tom Glavine Copy Share Image
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
“As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who… — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
We had an airplane, a Beechcraft Baron, that we - I had since 1981. And Annie [Glenn] and I both of had… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, my father, who was a high-ranking officer, pilot, and an avionics specialist in the United States… — Harris Faulkner Copy Share Image
I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you -… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image