Assuming Quote by Ernest K. Gann

Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell.

— Ernest K. Gann

Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they…

— Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

— Barry Goldwater

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging,…

— Harrison Ford

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

— Alan Alda

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

— Muriel Spark

If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.

— Bill Nye

The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.

— Ellen McLaughlin

But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If…

— Saburo Sakai

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

— Pappy Boyington

Learning to fly takes a lot of work, but there is something spiritual and calming about flying.

— Kunal Kapoor

The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn…

— Philip Wills