Flying Quotes - Page 14

• And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Clouds, Space, Leaving

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1998). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Air, Discovery, Perfection

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• The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too amazed for words, Stare at the flying fleets of wondrous birds.

  Thomas Gray

  Eye, Sky, Long

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• In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds.

  Erich Hartmann

  Use, Fancy, Succeed

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• Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive.

  Hugh Laurie

  Motorcycle, Alive, Heavenly Beings

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Dec 15, 2014

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• I think there's the element of the excitement of what I'm going to see, and with the special effects where you see men flying and walking through walls and shooting flame or whatever they do, especially the younger audiences, which make up a bulk of the moviegoers, they love that sort of thing.

  Stan Lee

  Wall, Men, Thinking

  "Stan Lee Delves Into the Past of Iron Man". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 30, 2008.

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• My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. That's the real goal.

  Alexander Payne

  Real, Ideas, Goal

  Source: collider.com

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• Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached .96 Mach. I noticed that the faster I got, the smoother the ride. Suddenly the Mach needle began to fluctuate. It went up to .965 Mach - then tipped right off the scale ... We were flying supersonic. And it was a smooth as a baby's bottom; Grandma could be sitting up there sipping lemonade.

  Chuck Yeager

  Baby, Grandma, Feet

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need."

  Carl Sandburg

  Boys, Men, Ideas

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.582, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés like "blazing trails," flying over "shark-infected seas," "battling with monsoons," and "forced landings amongst savage tribes" became familiar diet for breakfast. Unknown names became household words, whilst others, those of the failures, were forgotten utterly except by kith and kin.

  Amy Johnson

  Sharks, Sea, Names

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• Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic.

  John Wilkins

  Men, Air, Giving

  A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet book 1, proposition 14 (1640)

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• Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

  Joseph Addison

  People, Giving, Legs

  Joseph Addison (1860). “The Tatler. The Guardian”, p.378

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• I was flying planes before I was driving cars. I started gliding when I was fourteen, about when I started photographing. I was a geeky kid, and the camera was a way in high school for me to have some power. Flying was, too, I guess.

  Michael Light

  School, Kids, Car

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If I were an animal, I'd probably be a bald eagle, since I'm already bald and I love to fish. But I'd probably be a shaky-ass eagle because I'm afraid of flying.

  Steve Harvey

  Animal, Eagles, Ass

  Steve Harvey The "Think Like a Man" Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I hate flying. I'm not a big fan of flying at all so everywhere I go I go by tour bus. If I have to fly I will but I'm not a big fan of it.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Hate, Fans, Bigs

  Source: www.huskermax.com

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• I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.

  Arnold Palmer

  Airplane, Luxury, Attention

  Source: barbaraterryauto.wordpress.com

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• I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at that time because I am an elderly man.

  John Hodgman

  Cowboy, Men, Elderly

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the people of God. The only way we can have personal victory in the midst of these flying arrows raining down on us is to call upon the Lord for help. It is His strength, supplied to us in our weakness, that makes victory after victory possible.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Encouragement, Religious, Rain

  Edith Schaeffer (1993). “Affliction”, p.27, Baker Books

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• My family has always supported my activities, whether it was doing combat in Korea, flying progressively and challenging fighter-jet aircraft in Europe, or studying for a doctor's degree at MIT. They have been always very supportive and understanding of the challenges and risks involved in my career. A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Team, Korea, Europe

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• Chances are, the aliens will not want to land on our backyard, or even the White House lawn, with their flying saucers. They may have tiny, robotic self-replicating probes which can reach near light speed and can proliferate around the galaxy. So instead of the Enterprise and huge star ships, the aliens might actually send tiny probes to explore the universe. One might land on our lawn and we won't even know.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Light, Self

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

  Salman Rushdie

  Way, Made, Carpet

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.

  Richard Bach

  Communication, Airplane, Two

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• I just want to apologise for being late. I was flying back from Spain and the air hostess said: "We are two hours late Mr Carson." When I asked why, she said: "The pilot has heard a funny noise in the engine that he doesn't like, so we are waiting on another pilot who can't hear it."

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• I always was fascinated by space and always wanted to learn more about it and wanted to experience it first hand by flying into space. I don't know how it began or where it began. Maybe I was born with it. Maybe it's in my genes.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Hands, Space, Firsts

  "Interview with Anousheh Ansari, the First Female Space Tourist". Interview with Sara Goudarzi, www.space.com. September 15, 2006.

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• My career has been in a weird kind of like low-flying under the radar-kind of place. I never made it on "Saturday Night Live" where all my friends did.

  Jim Carrey

  Night, Careers, Kind

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