Flying Quotes
1248 quotes by 973 authors
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but…
— Octave Chanute
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was…
— Jacques Charles
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Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told us they were…
— Richard Branson
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I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.
— Jacqueline Cochran
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Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.
— Robert Henri
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May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange…
— Winston Churchill
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
— Jonathan Swift
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Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.
— Gordon Baxter
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In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to…
— Neil H. McElroy
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Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.
— Pappy Boyington
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I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I unexpectedly took to…
— Arthur P. Warner
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It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.
— Francisco Lopez
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The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a…
— Lin Yutang
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What I feel like - 'cause I wanna be married, of course - I feel like the type of girl I would be with is…
— Kanye West
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It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.
— Samuel Hynes
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I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.
— Billy Bob Thornton
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I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.
— Billy Bob Thornton
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