Flights Quotes

122 Flights quotes by 104 unique authors

The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United States in complex,… — Dave Barry
The planes are crowded and noisy and late, and everybody hates everybody. If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the flights I've been… — Dave Barry
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history… — Nicholas Murray Butler
The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made… — Samuel Johnson
I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy. — Steve Fossett
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
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our… — Burt Rutan
Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility… — Ben Parr
My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of… — Craig Stone
Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy,… — Jeff VanderMeer
And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights. — Adolf Galland
I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can… — Robin Gibb
I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class. — Phil Collins
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts… — Ian Hacking
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes… — Samuel Johnson
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. — Samuel Johnson
I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain… — Jay Kay
U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not… — Ingrid Newkirk
On both of my flights, everything went very well. — Sally Ride
If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine. — Wayne Rooney
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
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. — Edith Sitwell
On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food. — Lisa Snowdon
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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