Flight Quotes

927 Flight quotes by 688 unique authors

I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because… — Len Goodman
I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in… — Jeff Abbott
Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could… — Rupert Friend
These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very diverse and seemed… — Walter Bradford Cannon
Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known,… — Archibald Garrod
Fire up your heart for the wind is getting cold, now it always gets cold for the riders of the night. When you carry that… — Jon Stewart
The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the… — Anita Shreve
We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended ... that Congress change our tax… — Barack Obama
I would be delighted to show my film in the Viennale. I do not offer press kits. I do not offer stills. I do not… — Vincent Gallo
I've learned I'm rarely able to stay at home and not work. If I try to 'just sit on my couch for a little while,'… — Kathryn Minshew
I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least likely to hate… — Konrad Lorenz
The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while… — John Krasinski
We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many… — Herbert Muschamp
As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my… — Lavrenti Lopes
Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue… — Edmund Clarence Stedman
By now, a million pedal strokes have etched the muscles in my legs with a single purpose: to power the crank and move the bicycle… — Frosty Wooldridge
I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my… — Frosty Wooldridge
The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying… — Evagrius Ponticus
Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force. Even… — Simon Newcomb
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird… — Friedrich Nietzsche
My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I… — William Shakespeare
My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight. — Charles Dickens
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which… — Arthur Koestler
How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of… — William Cowper

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