Flying Quote by Ernest K. Gann Download Open image “Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell.” — Ernest K. Gann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flying Hypnotic Pilots Spells Victim Willing
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. — Pappy Boyington Copy Share Image
Learning to fly takes a lot of work, but there is something spiritual and calming about flying. — Kunal Kapoor Copy Share Image
“More than anything else, the sensation [of flying] is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost… — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
There is no more alluring airspace in the world than the slit up a China girl's dress. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
As the years go by, he returns to this invisible world rather than to earth for peace and solace. There also he finds a… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
“Those ever more frequent nights when his loneliness became unbearable and he took solace in wine he would sometimes stand outside his tent holding… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge near Elko,… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying. — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel,' anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.' — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
« He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Yeah, I'm the Brit who isn't Lewis Hamilton that woke up and realised he was good. I got that tag because I was young,… — Jenson Button Copy Share Image
I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
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