Flight Quotes - Page 32

• In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle - all branding, marketing and 'accessibility', a word that usually means dumbing-down.

  David Chipperfield

  Mean, Europe, Marketing

  "David Chipperfield: perfect harmony" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2010.

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• I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what people make out of their reality in a totalitarian system like Castro's. They take flight and move into the imagination in order to transcend their immediate reality. I had to write this play. It helped me understand my own loss of innocence.

  Nilo Cruz

  Lying, Moving, Writing

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• Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us apart from each other. We wander in the ambient noise, checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa. The process convinces us that at any moment we may have to submit to the force that is implied in all this, the unknown authority behind it, behind the categories, the languages we don't understand. This vast terminal has been erected to examine souls.

  Don DeLillo

  Mean, Air, Convince Us

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.254, Vintage

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• Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars.

  George Steiner

  Stars, Moon, Imagination

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• We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk songs. We also had recordings of nature sounds: thunder, rain, the singing of birds. We switched them on most frequently of all, and we never grew tired of them. It was as if they returned us to Earth.

  Anatoly Berezovoy

  Song, Rain, Tired

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• I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point of its planetary habitat combined with a certain level of technological ability... I think it is a built-in gene-directed drive for the spreading of the species and its continuation.

  Donald A. Wollheim

  Intelligent, Thinking, Space

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• Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.

  Robert Hunter

  Spring, Night, Wings

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• How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.

  Noel Coward

  Nature, Travel, Great Success

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• There was some rhythm, some ecstasy in this dance of flight that expressed the fact that happiness which touches depths and rises beyond physical confines is as old as consciousness, yet ever renewed, and is like the glorying flight of the birds

  Elyne Mitchell

  Bird, Depth, Facts

  Elyne Mitchell (1947). “Images in Water”

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• The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

  Sun Tzu

  Bird, Rising, Beast

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Thinking, Long

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Le Portrait de Dorian Gray / The Picture of Dorian Gray: Édition bilingue: français - anglais / Bilingual Edition: French - English”, p.196, BookRix

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• The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.

  Biz Stone

  Moving, Ideas, Bird

  "Twitter Cofounder Biz Stone Interview at Wisdom 2.0" by Soren Gordhamer, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2012.

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• 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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• The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.

  Louis Aragon

  Bird, Nocturnal, Sides

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• [What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if he found no valid answer. He flew through the days of his summer month like a rocket, but if one stopped him in mid-flight, he could always name the purpose of his every random moment. Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.

  Ayn Rand

  Summer, Moving, Names

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.71, Hamilton Books

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• The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

  Graham Hawkes

  Ocean, Technology, Games

  "Winged sub almost ready to go very deep" by Tom Stienstra, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2008.

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• On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound. Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. You see without assistance from the eyes, over distances beyond the visual horizon. There are moments when existence appears independent even of the mind. The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Distance, Home, Eye

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• In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle the moon. This will involve known risks of great magnitude and probable risks which have not been foreseen. Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. With 99.9 percent reliability, we could expect 5,600 defects. Hence the striving for perfection and the use of redundancy which characterize the Apollo program.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Moon, Journey, Circles

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• Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo, there is no such lack of information. Nevertheless, the flight will involve risks of great magnitude and probably risks that have not been foreseen.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Risk, Apollo, Information

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• The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Good Life, Memories

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• No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.

  Stella Young

  Stairs, Made, Ramp

  "I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2014.

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• We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Morning, Brother, Journey

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• The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

  Colum McCann

  Reason, Enough, Oneself

  Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic: A Novel”, p.31, Random House

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• It is hot in Tokyo, it’s humid, I’m tired, all of these backs are in front of you, I’m not going to make the team anyway so screw it. I remember going back and I called down to the desk. I was asking about some flights out of there.

  Terrell Davis

  Team, Tired, Hot

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