Flight Quotes - Page 26

• You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.

  Lewis Carroll

  Clouds, Sky, Bird

  Adrian Mitchell, Lewis Carroll (2001). “Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass”, p.69, Oberon Books

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• That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Anchors, Feet, Space

  Janette Turner Hospital (2015). “Collected Stories”, p.277, Univ. of Queensland Press

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• I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the family look special and making my mother feel better and I really wanted to make people happy. That has been my ministry my whole life. I call it The Church of F.F.C. - The Church of Freedom From Concern. And I'm a high priest in that church.

  Jim Carrey

  Mother, Kids, Feel Better

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

  Octave Chanute

  Believe, Machines, Predictions

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• I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

  Charles Rolls

  Thinking, Aviation, Predictions

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• With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane.

  Glenn Curtiss

  Eye, Lines, Aviation

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• The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished. An analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case.

  Richard van der Riet Woolley

  Future, Believe, Space

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• We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate.

  Allan Haines Loughead

  Distance, Past, Eras

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• Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Stars, Future, Men

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• Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Night, Another Day, Aviation

  "Solar-powered plane lands safely after 26-hour flight". www.bbc.com. July 8, 2010.

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• There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

  Ally Condie

  Fall, Ebb And Flow, Leaving

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• It’s like flight, you’re flying… When you’re hitting something that’s turning you on, you get goose bumps. It’s a rush. It’s very exciting and that’s what I’m hoping to do to the audience.

  Yanni

  Flying, Bumps, Hitting

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• To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home.

  Jerry Crawford

  Home, Sky, People

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• When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Europe, Argentina, Shrinking

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• Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Stress, Fighting, Energy

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• I think it's one of the most natural things for any human to do is to be able to run because it's that flight or fight reaction you have. You either fight or you run away. It's just a natural way for us to move.

  Zola Budd

  Running, Moving, Fighting

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• It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

  Edward E. Barnard

  Wings, Fancy, Undecided

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• Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.

  David Neeleman

  People, Wife, Flying

  "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". SFGate Interview, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

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• The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Suicide, Hate, Views

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• If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk.

  Larry Walters

  Brother, Able, Hawks

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• To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.

  Scott Stossel

  Home, Fighting, Cells

  "The Prisoner of Stress" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

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• It would be right to state that, with the successful flight of the XR-4 in the summer of 1942, the helicopter became a reality in the United States.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Summer, Successful, Reality

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• It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Saving, Pages, Would Be

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• One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.

  Clive Barnes

  Beautiful, Sight, Ballet

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• For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

  Josephine Hart

  Bird, Traps, Knows

  Josephine Hart (1993). “Sin”

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