Aviation Quote by Michael Parfit Download Open image “Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.” — Michael Parfit ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aviation Flight Great aviation Magic Thinking
“When you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even it it's a moronic proclamation ... Words have… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words. — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
“The real reason that language so often carries magic is because humans have trouble not ascribing special power to it. Language makes so many… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The fascination of flight can't be expressed with words. But it really lies beyond the capabilities of human endeavor. Once you've experienced it, you'll… — Friedrich Oblessor Copy Share Image
“That summer, there was a Name the Babies contest, an annual event organized by the Whale Museum on San Juan Island. A young girl… — Michael Parfit Copy Share Image
Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting. — Michael Parfit Copy Share Image
Watersheds come in families; nested levels of intimacy... As you work upstream toward home, you're more closely related. The big river is like your… — Michael Parfit Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without… — Philip Alston Copy Share Image
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged… — Jean Batten Copy Share Image
When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again. — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
Be Luke Skywalker, not Darth Vader. Ultimately love is stronger than evil. — Don Burr Copy Share Image