Flights Quotes
122 Flights quotes by 104 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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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
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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
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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
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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
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And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
— Adolf Galland
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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
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I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
— Phil Collins
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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
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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
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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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
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
— Sally Ride
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If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.
— Wayne Rooney
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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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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
— Edith Sitwell
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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
Who Wrote These Flights Quotes
104 authors contributed a total of 122 Flights Quotes, led by these top contributors: