Flight Quotes
927 Flight quotes by 688 unique authors
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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
— Mark Russell
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I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and…
— Rufus Sewell
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You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're…
— Alan Shepard
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Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to…
— Alan Shepard
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
— Edith Sitwell
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You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
— Robert Smith
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On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.
— Lisa Snowdon
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I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
— Harry Dean Stanton
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Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of…
— James Surowiecki
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We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for…
— Bob Taft
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You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by…
— Paul Theroux
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We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes…
— Lewis Thomas
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and…
— Abraham Verghese
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For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to…
— Mike Wallace
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Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid,…
— J C Watts
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I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.
— Arabella Weir
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I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely…
— Florence Welch
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I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful…
— Vivienne Westwood
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight…
— Kate Winslet
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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
— Edward Young
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
— Caitlin Moran
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On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod…
— Margaret Heffernan
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Who Wrote These Flight Quotes
688 authors contributed a total of 927 Flight Quotes, led by these top contributors: