Flight Quotes - Page 6

• I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.

  Louis Daguerre

  Light, Arrested

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• Come up and be a kite,
  On a diamond flight!

  Kate Bush

  Kites, Come Up, Diamond

  Song: Kite, Album: The Kick Inside, 1978

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• What then remains, but well our power to use,
  And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose?
  And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail,
  When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

  Alexander Pope

  Character, Air, Use

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem”, p.124

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• When you walk up five flights of stairs at four in the morning, there's definitely a hooker involved.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Morning, Four, Stairs

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Essentially 'Flight' is just an adventure of multiple realities.

  Vanna Bonta

  Adventure, Reality, Multiple

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

  Stephen Hawking

  Zero, Space, Firsts

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• In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  Neil Armstrong

  Science, Flying, Survival

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  Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Healing, Fighting

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World”, p.183, Random House

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• I used to retain information extremely fast, so perhaps it's hardening a bit and I don't take the impression as well as I used to. Instead of writing in free flight, I had to check on the stories all the time. So I have decided I better to do it while I am fresh!

  Marina Warner

  Writing, Stories, Information

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Heart, Thinking, Space Flight

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• The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Ignorance, Men, Joy

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• Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane.' I said, 'If I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.'

  Anthony Edwards

  New York, Real, Yesterday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

  Neil Armstrong

  Roles, Firsts, Yeah

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

  Paul Theroux

  Funny, Travel, Grateful

  Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.85, Ivy Books

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• Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Learning, Views

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

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• Today, the U.S. fleet has shrunk to just four main carriers, which control 80 percent-plus of the U.S. market. No wonder passengers are at the mercy of the major airlines: flights jam-packed, routes slashed, service to smaller airports dumped.

  Paul Solman

  Today, Wonder, Mercy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Air, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.103, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Creativity, Errors, Phrases

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• I've always wanted to travel. My mom was a geography queen, I knew the atlas, and I looked at her pictures of all her world travels because she traveled a lot before I was born, with my brother. I was always so jealous. I kind of chose a job that would be a way I could see the world without having to pay for it. I'm not going to be a flight attendant. I'm way too busy to be that.

  Le1f

  Mom, Brother, Queens

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• Even if you're not enjoying the flight, it's futile to threaten to get out and walk.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Enjoy, Walks, Ifs

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• When someone's running late through an airport, I hope they miss their flight so they can meet the love of their life at the duty free shop.

  Dane Cook

  Running, Airports, Missing

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• Who when examining in the cabinet of the entomologist the gay and exotic butterflies, and singular cicadas, will associate with these lifeless objects, the ceaseless harsh music of the latter, and the lazy flight of the former - the sure accompaniments of the still, glowing noonday of the tropics.

  Charles Darwin

  Butterfly, Gay, Glowing

  Charles Darwin (1864). “Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World: Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy”, p.299

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• U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Cities, Organization

  "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)". Book by Dave Barry, 2007.

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