Flight Quotes

927 Flight quotes by 688 unique authors

A beautiful blossom is a fleeting thing It stays for a moment and then takes wing: With special rays we catch it ere flight So… — Unknown Author
The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our mechanicians, in like… — Simon Newcomb
The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in… — Alfred North Whitehead
Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent… — Richard Dawkins
It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk on that long beach Everything was withdrawn as far as possible, indrawn: the… — Elizabeth Bishop
When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted… — Ann Hood
This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant… — Ann Hood
A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food tourists.… — Graydon Carter
When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain. — Chip Conley
My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be… — Tucker Max
My son is an inspired child, a very positive and happy child. The year he was born, he travelled 13 countries with us. I still… — Sonu Nigam
We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun… — Edgar Mitchell
I like that they call it an airplane cabin. A cabin is where you go to get away from stress. The cabin is a respite… — Regina Brett
When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel -… — Henry Rollins
In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white… — Natasha Trethewey
The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that… — Zac Goldsmith
I believe I am blessed with the ability to fall asleep just about anytime, anywhere. I can sleep on a flight, on a couch, and… — Shilpa Shetty
A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel. — Stephen Hawking
We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us,… — Yochai Benkler
Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting physics; really interesting… — Michael Dickinson
By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index… — Noam Chomsky
The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome,… — Noam Chomsky
As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes. — Chris Hadfield
Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power -… — Gary Zukav
The real challenge of being a flight attendant is getting people out. The training requires that they demonstrate they can evacuate an aircraft within 90… — Philip Greenspun

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