Flight Quotes - Page 10

• What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws you up into the air and catches you. And for about 30 seconds, you feel like there's no gravity. So what we did was we did a series of eight of those in a row. And every time we landed, we stayed perfectly still for the five minutes in between while the plane is setting up so that we could just continue the routine where we had left off. So the final video you see is all one take. And we seem to be weightless the entire time.

  Damian Kulash

  Eight, Air, People

  "OK Go Drops New Zero-Gravity Video". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.

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• People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Safety, Care

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• When you turn on the news, they don't say, "Hey, 2 Million kids went to school safely today...40,000 flights took place without incident." They don't say that.

  Richard Patrick

  School, Kids, Hey

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously not desperate and poor refugee dwellers. They were middle class, educated enough to speak English, to be able to go to flight school, to come to America, to live in Florida.

  Edward Said

  School, Florida, Speak English

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I have no problem spending money on a great meal with friends or a flight to see somebody that I love, versus something like a fancy car. I don't need a fancy car. I don't need a giant TV.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Fancy Cars, Giants, Meals

  "How to Be a Better Person in 2015, According to the Creators of Portlandia". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. January 8, 2015.

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• The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.

  Rory McIlroy

  Family And Friends, Take Me Back, Excited

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's an investment in that territory. But it can lose money because it's very expensive to go to Europe. You can't really just say, like, "Oh, we're gonna take our van and drive to California tomorrow." It's more like, "Oh, we have to fly to London and rent three guitar amps, a bass amp, drums; buy all these flights for four people; hire a driver."

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Ideas, California, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The lifestyle is strenuous on the body, but it's stimulating to the senses and the mind. So there's a give and take. There are days the flights knock me out, where I feel like the human punching bag that is being on planes every other day. I think people sort of glorify it, like "Oh, you're at parties and there's booze and girls." But it's still work.

  A-Trak

  Girl, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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• You'd get on the plane; and every single person is somebody really, really famous. It just killed me. On one flight you'd have Linda Gray, O.J. Simpson, Robert De Niro, Carol Burnett, Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds... and Francis Ford Coppola.

  Paul Reubens

  Carols, Planes, Gray

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in the Mojave Desert. And SpaceShipOne was born and had three flights into space that won something called the X Prize. And from there, we're building SpaceShipTwo, which is ... a beautiful spaceship that is very, very, very nearly completed and will be ready from about next Christmas onwards to start taking people into space.

  Richard Branson

  Beautiful, Space, People

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• And from, you know, small ideas, bigger ideas emerge. So we're starting with suborbital space flights and we'll then go into orbital space flights and, you know, maybe one day we'll send people on a one-way voyage into the depths of space as per the science fiction trips.

  Richard Branson

  Space Flight, Ideas, People

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• For some reason, BASE jumping is misunderstood and our government forbids it and makes it illegal in most every place in the country. So I'm kind of a criminal here in the United States for pursuing the dream of flight, but everywhere else I go, every other country, I'm kind of looked up to, or fascinated with for the flying that I do.

  Dean Potter

  Dream, Country, Jumping

  Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com

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• I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if the engine blow up?' 'What if a fool's got a bomb on it?'

  Muhammad Ali

  Blow, Thinking, What If

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Axes, Two, Wheels

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• My daughter lives in an apartment (hovel) in Brooklyn, so disgusting the roaches don't even bother hiking up the four flights of stairs to her door. Did I mention that she has a family of mice living under her stove? If she would promise to carry a weapon in her bag, I would never ask her to visit again. Best Mother's Day gift I could ask for!

  Kate Siegel

  Daughter, Mother, Doors

  "Crazy Jewish Mother's Day with Kate Siegel and Kim Friedman". Interview with Penny Mann, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 18, 2016.

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• The West is supporting, even financing the right-wing media, it is financing 'the opposition', encourages capital flight of billions of dollars, works closely with the local 'elites' to create 'deficits', 'uncertainty' and despair. It creates corruption scandals, and it even supports fake 'left' anti-government movements. And of course it is training and corrupting some key military cadres.

  Andre Vltchek

  Military, Media, Wings

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the Eurozone.

  Michael Hudson

  Party, Europe, Creating

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or the journey over multiple lifetimes is like a flight of an eagle. First, the eagle stretches its wings high, high, high, and experiences everything that the world has to offer in terms of flight. It's growing and flying and it's experiencing, and then it brings its wings down gracefully and that is the completion of the journey.

  Karan Bajaj

  Beautiful, Yoga, Journey

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• My fitness routine includes things that are not stressful on my body - swimming, yoga, stretching, and rebounding. When I used to kill myself in the gym, it had an adverse effect on me because my body would be so stressed out and constantly in fight-or-flight mode.

  Laura Prepon

  Yoga, Swimming, Fighting

  "Laura Prepon launches a book to help others heal from weight and digestive issues using integrative medicine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Every week I'll be spending money on flights, accommodation, stringing and even things as simple as taxis, meals out and, of course, paying the other members of my team. I'm still very careful, though, with what I'm spending.

  Andy Murray

  Team, Simple, Meals

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I hope to encourage people to take flight on their mats, in their lives, and in their hearts.

  Kathryn Budig

  Heart, People

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• When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.

  Pico Iyer

  Black And White, Years, Two Year Olds

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• One of the particular things that impressed me was one visitor [of NAACP] - I think it was - it wasn't the Prime Minister of England. We were located then on 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, up several flights of rickety stairs, and he came all the way up those stairs to see Walter [White], largely because of certain kinds of impact, I think, that the Association seemingly was having.

  Ella Baker

  Thinking, Impact, White

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I realize that people fly with small children all the time, and that babies are easier in some ways because all they do is sit/lie around anyway, but damn it's hard to keep a baby comfortable on any flight, much less a long one, particularly amid the looks of horror they will get from fellow passengers as it dawns on them that their 10- to 13-hour flight might come with a soundtrack of screaming baby.

  Carolyn Hax

  Baby, Children, Lying

  "Carolyn Hax Live: "Plan your own future"". live.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2016.

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• May you find in the nectar of life, the sweetness of hope in your heart, feel the comfort of song birds in your soul, the grace of new wind in your wings. Color you sprirt with rainbows and shower gold dust in your hair. Time heals. Life renews. Dreams take flight agian. close you eyes and drink it all in.

  Laurel Burch

  Dream, Song, Eye

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