Flying Quotes - Page 12

• To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.

  Crystal Waters

  Winning, People, Battle

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• I hate being frightened of things. I'm not someone who can say: "Oh, I'm scared of flying, I won't fly." Fear seems to creep over every part of your life so if there's something I identify as frightening to me I want to tackle it.

  Hugh Jackman

  Hate, Want, Scared

  "X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Hugh Jackman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

  Ridley Scott

  Fall, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Character, Air, Personality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

  Michael Jackson

  Education, Laughter, Growing Up

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• Flying to me isn't scary, it's just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard, I'm afraid to fly.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Boredom, Scary, Boring

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and they turn it to their purposes and make a living out of it, then they become not "that person," but they become "that writer" or "that doctor" or "that supervisor."

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Doctors, Brain

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2008.

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• We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think about how we stack up, how we sit on top of each other. How we pray that we know what we're up to.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Technology, Thinking, Long Ago

  "A Fantastic Journey Into the Mind of Collage Artist Wangechi Mutu". Interview with Benjy Hansen-Bundy, www.motherjones.com. October 12, 2013.

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• Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

  Carl Sandburg

  Keys, Wish, Ciphers

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.

  Danica Patrick

  Airplane, Men, Thinking

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• There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Climbing, Feelings, Steps

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• If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to their ankles.

  Mardy Grothe

  Race, People, Would Be

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• Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Mean, Views

  Henry Ward Beecher (1895). “Metaphors, Similes and Other Characteristic Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Dark, Winter

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.122, Counterpoint Press

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• We don't talk about planes flying. We talk about them crashing.

  Tibor Kalman

  Planes, Unpredictability

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• The Web is a compelling new medium being put to all kinds of uses, by everyone from banks to Cub Scouts to flying saucer cults. That said, it can also be a powerful folly amplifier.

  Paul Saffo

  Powerful, Use, Kind

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• For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Air, Dust

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.81, Lulu.com

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• I believe there are unidentified flying objects, I'm just not sure who's driving.

  Peter Jennings

  Believe, Driving, Not Sure

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• I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post.

  Vaginal Davis

  Writing, School, Letters

  "Let Her Teach You: Questions For Vaginal Davis". Interview with Alex Gartenfeld, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 23, 2010.

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• I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Bird, Tiny, Bigs

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Mar 27, 2014

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• I've met some serious aliens in my life, for sure. I'm sure you've seen a UFO. Haven't all of us seen something flying in the sky, and it's at some random time of night that doesn't make sense, and it's not the shape of a plane? I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person.

  Alicia Keys

  Night, Sky, Space

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• We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Too Late, Speed, Clock

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1966). “Themes and episodes”

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• Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.

  Terence McKenna

  Miracle, Flying Saucers

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• Turtles hate heights. They don't even like being a few feet off the ground. It's the main reason they have resisted evolution for so long-fear of heights. Turtle thinking goes thus: Sure, first our scales turn into feathers and the next thing you know we're flying and chirping and perching on trees. We've seen it happen. Thanks, but we're staying right here in the mud where we belong. You're not going to see us flying full-tilt boogie into a sliding glass door.

  Christopher Moore

  Hate, Thinking, Doors

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• The future is flying home. That's the immediate future. But long-distance future, I plan on being back. I'm not going to end my time here with that loss.

  Pete Sampras

  Distance, Home, Loss

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