Flying Quotes
1248 Flying quotes by 927 unique authors
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Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes,…
— Alan Bean
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Let's kneel down through all the worlds of the body like lovers. I know I am a tree and full of life and I know…
— Linda Hogan
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I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying.…
— Barbara Park
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And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little…
— Tim Winton
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Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing…
— Margaret Atwood
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Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a ... crater, with a large number…
— Neil Armstrong
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I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking at…
— David M. Brown
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As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given…
— Johannes Kepler
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What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But…
— James Joyce
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...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there.
— Joshua Slocum
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The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.
— Lewis Carroll
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Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter…
— Cesar Aira
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I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the art of the…
— John Kessel
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I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first…
— Michael Morpurgo
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I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so…
— Lily Aldridge
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The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you,
— Graham Hawkes
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The biggest problem is getting beyond the "you can't" syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you're on your way to flying. Anyone who cannot…
— Bill Drayton
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