Flight Quotes - Page 9

• Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.

  Dylan Thomas

  Good Night, Men, Too Late

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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• It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Dark, Age, Protection

  Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel, Bertrand De Jouvenel (2010). “The Ethics of Redistribution”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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• Beginning with the early dawn of each day, I will radiate joy to everyone I meet. I will be mental sunshine for all who cross my path. Before the unfailing light of my cheer, darkness will take flight.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Cheer, Sunshine, Light

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• We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

  Peter King

  Needs, Done, Silent

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• The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Brother, Done, Rookies

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• Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.

  Aaron Copland

  Self, Discipline, Simplicity

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• I obsess and fantasize about whatever attractive men may be on the flight. Though these days the pickings are lean. No one flies regularly anymore but fugly, bland businessmen, and hideous families with no-neck monsters for children.

  Vaginal Davis

  Children, Men, Monsters

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've never felt scared of flight, ever. It's really weird. I don't know. They stick a gin and tonic in your hands and I just think, "Life is good!"

  Dallas Campbell

  Life Is Good, Thinking, Hands

  Source: collider.com

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• In most instances, at all costs, do NOT check a bag. Especially during the holiday season. You have more flexibility to switch flights, switch airlines or even leave the airport and get a rental car to drive to your next destination. If the airline has your bag, they also have you.

  Beth Mowins

  Holiday, Airports, Car

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• I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Reality, Long Ago

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• Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under the light of the new forces these tools would have to endure. Space flight would have to take several steps back before moving forward again.

  Andy Weir

  Moving, Technology, Agency

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• I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Space Flight, Orbit

  "NASA's Far-Out New Plans", February 02, 2010.

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• As for my destination, I don’t think I ever knew one. I walk, I run in the direction of my dreams. Things change along the way, people change, I change, the world changes, even my dreams change. I don’t have a place to arrive, I just keep doing what I know how to do, the best that I can do it. I’ll probably end up a deluded geriatric in a wheelchair wearing a cape and tights, imagining my own flight out of this world, but of course with a young girl in my arms.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Girl, Running, Dream

  "SHAHRUKH KHAN's speech at Yale: I can’t fix my age – am I 45 or 15?". www.bollywoodlife.com. April 16, 2012.

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• The pitch would normally be low, but my ball starts carrying and stays on a sustained plane. Everyone always complains - 'that ball is low' - but then you go back and look at the tape, and it's right there. My catchers tell me, and the hitters tell me, that the ball stays true flight the last five or six feet.

  Roy Oswalt

  Feet, Complaining, Tape

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• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  Ian Anderson

  Taken, Rocks, Musician

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• Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight or flight thing.

  Rashida Jones

  Fighting, Men, Weird Things

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• I tell ya when I fly, I don't get no respect. I took one of those cheap flights, no frills. I finished eatin' and had to do the dishes.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Respect, Dishes, Frills

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• Whenever you get on the plane, the flight attendant will always tell you the name of your pilot. Like anyone goes, Oh, he's good.

  David Spade

  Names, Pilots, Planes

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• If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me an A.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Transition, Movement, Fancy

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• You ever say a phrase you say all the time at the wrong time, feel like a complete idiot? Something like, 'You, too. You, too.' I was getting out of the cab at the airport, and the driver goes, 'Hey, have a nice flight.' 'You, too. You, too. You have a nice flight, too - in case you ever fly some day.

  Brian Regan

  Nice, Airports, Phrases

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• Damn! This flight attendant treating us like we won these first class tickets in a contest.

  J. B. Smoove

  Class, Firsts, Tickets

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• I can see today that the same sort of issues lie behind taxidermy and photography. Taxidermy consists in preserving a bird in full flight... In the same way, photography halts and freezes motion and life.

  Annette Messager

  Photography, Lying, Issues

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• The British Airways steward announced that the in-flight movie would be Chariots of Fire. 'Is that the only one?' I asked. 'We are also showing Gandhi,' he replied. 'Where do I have to sit to see it?" I responded. 'I'm sorry, sir, but Gandhi is only showing in first class.' The irony seemed to escape him.

  Jim Wallis

  Sorry, Class, Fire

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• Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Stars, Loneliness, Book

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• I don't expect my flight to produce a generation of astronauts and cosmonauts back home, but I hope it will encourage people to pursue their dreams.

  Mark Shuttleworth

  Dream, Home, People

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