Flight Quotes
927 quotes by 688 authors
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Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder where they live:…
— Geoff Dyer
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There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling.
— Richard Branson
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We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.
— Richard Bach
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I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
— T.H. White
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The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine…
— Richard Bach
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Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
— James Dickey
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Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear?…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it. ...Without a lyric that I'm happy with, it could be…
— Ben Gibbard
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You see, it's essential that one of us stays awake during the flight [ballon]. So, rather than using the comfortable Virgin seats which we used…
— Richard Branson
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I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in…
— Gordon Cooper
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While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of…
— Gordon Cooper
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Submit an agreement providing for the peaceful absorbtion of a celestial races in such a manner that our culture would remain intact with guarantee that…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge.…
— Gore Vidal
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The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul…
— Walter Benjamin
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Star Wars' is such a phenomenal global supernova that anything that gets said about it becomes kind of fact and gospel, and then taken by…
— Seth Green
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The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It is not based…
— Starhawk
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When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much…
— Chris Cooper
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I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.
— Izabella Scorupco
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I…
— Bam Margera
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I am very shy. If I am flying British Airways and the airhostess asks me two questions, and I don’t understand her accent – I…
— Shahrukh Khan
Who Wrote These Flight Quotes
688 authors contributed a total of 927 Flight Quotes, led by these top contributors: