Flight Quotes

927 Flight quotes by 688 unique authors

If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight. — Fernand Point
The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other channel… — John William Strutt
The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply unforgettable. — Scott Carpenter
The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve… — Buzz Aldrin
With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are… — Wernher von Braun
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight. — Neil Armstrong
Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago. Ten years from… — Burt Rutan
We hope to create thousands of astronauts over the next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing the majestic beauty of our planet… — Richard Branson
The next 15 years will see thousands of people leave the atmosphere on suborbital flights. My company's SS2 system might fly 100,000 people by 2024.… — Burt Rutan
Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before… — Arthur C. Clarke
Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways of doing things.… — Wilferd Peterson
Other anatomical changes associated with long-duration space flight are definitely negative: the immune system weakens, the heart shrinks because it doesn't have to strain against… — Chris Hadfield
The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that… — Adrian Bejan
There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the… — Johannes Kepler
Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare. — Dave Barry
Stay fly, you can call me Have a Safe Flight — Nicki Minaj
Anyone who thinks Ryanair flights are some sort of bastion of sanctity where you can contemplate your navel is wrong. We already bombard you with… — Michael O'Leary
Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich. — Michael O'Leary
All flights are fuelled with Leprechaun wee and my bullshit! — Michael O'Leary
Once, hurrying through a busy airport to get to my gate on time for a connecting flight, I came upon a lady in a wheelchair.… — Kathy Troccoli
We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been… — John S. Pistole
As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of those… — H. L. Mencken
To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion. — Maya Lin
And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document… — Umberto Guidoni
If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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