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Flying Quotes by Douglas Adams
- Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
- The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at…
- This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set…
- He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to…
- From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from the feeling of…
- [The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for…
- The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck…
- The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
More Flying Quotes
- Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying. — Neil Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
- I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying. — Andrea Arnold
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling… — Douglas Bader
- Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. — Douglas Adams