"Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid……" — Joyce Carol Oates

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• Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying. — Neil Armstrong
• Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's… — Douglas Adams
• More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot… — Cecil Beaton
• In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. — Robert Benchley
• If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. — Mel Brooks
• When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece… — Kalpana Chawla
• I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation.… — Michael P. Anderson
• To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. — Otto Lilienthal
• My first wife didn't like to fly, either. — Gordon Baxter
• The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a… — Benny Hill
• The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking. — Jonathan Swift
• Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be. — Will Durant

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