Flying Quotes - Page 17

• I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.

  Joe Bastianich

  Mother, Believe, Thinking

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• I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning the other side of my half-clad body to the fire, I sought slumber again.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fire, Bird, Slumber

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.230

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• I think you've got to worry when you start flying flags. There's a lot of political connotations that come with waving flags around the stage. But the flag will make an appearance. I think it's more likely to be draped around an instrument than waved around.

  Simon Taylor-Davis

  Thinking, Worry, Political

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The new millennium sucks! What a disappointment! What's the difference between the old millennium and the new millennium? Nothing! It's the same load of crap with a '2' in the front. When I was a kid, I am old enough so that when I was a kid, I looked forward to the new millennium. When I was young, I said, 'I'm gonna live through a change! A massive change! Things are gonna be different! Things are gonna be great!' Screwed again! No flying cars! No flying cars!

  Lewis Black

  Disappointment, Kids, Flying Cars

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• So we have that, where there are moments where it's just Nic Cage and Amber Heard and you're in the car with them and it's not stuff flying at your face but you're literally sitting in the backseat. You're sitting there and it's just sort of interesting. At the same time we're going to throw cars and guns and bullets and frogs and naked people at your face because it's fun and that's the roller coaster. We do write some things for 3-D.

  Todd Farmer

  Fun, Writing, Gun

  Source: collider.com

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• Well, it's sort of funny to try and get that balance between just accepting the reality of my friend [co-star Satya Bhabha] flying in from the ceiling of the theatre and like starting to do a dance with demon hipster chicks. It's like, so how do we react when he throws fireballs? Are we surprised? Does this happen a lot?

  Alison Pill

  Stars, Hipster, Reality

  Source: collider.com

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• If you get a ticket, you can go to traffic school, and they make you watch movies for like eight hours: head-on collisions, mannequins flying out the windshield. At the end of the movie, the instructor goes, 'Now what have we learned by this?' Never let a mannequin drive your car.

  Robert Schimmel

  School, Eight, Car

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• I used to be very afraid of flying. It would creep me out and make me very tense and very uncomfortable, and I would sweat or even cry. I was very, very scared of dying, but I'm not anymore. Fears need to be indulged, in order to exist. I don't have much time to indulge in any fears.

  Franka Potente

  Order, Sweat, Indulge In

  Source: collider.com

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• Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a band called the Flying Luttenbachers. Go see the Flying Luttenbachers when they're in your town. He's one of the greatest rock composers who ever lived, and he's struggling and living like a poverty-stricken hermit.

  Glenn Branca

  Struggle, Blow, Rocks

  Interview with Simon Dasher, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2006.

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• I guess gritty is the word that you said. But it has a different tone. We're not flying around in different universes - it's a bit more earthy.

  Jeremy Renner

  Different Universes, Tone, Said

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Flying Cars, Way

  "Q&A: Bill Gates On Flying Cars, The Malaria Epidemic, And Article-Writing Robots". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 16, 2013.

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• Can someone explain to me why pilots feel they need to wake everyone to tell us that we are flying by a cloud that looks like a monkey.

  Bill Engvall

  Clouds, Needs, Looks

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2010

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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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• I've been on planes flying through thunder storms when the pilot says, 'ladies and gentlemen, we tried to fly around it but we can't so it's going to be rough'.And when a pilot says it's going to be bad, it's going to be rough. And you say to youself, boy, I could have got the train.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boys, Gentleman, Storm

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

  Dean Potter

  Father, Men, Being Free

  Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com

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• The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five or seven passengers. High speed monoplanes will carry even less. . . . Over cities, the aerial sentry or policeman will be found. A thousand aeroplanes flying to the opera must be kept in line and each allowed to alight upon the roof of the auditorium, in its proper turn.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Cities, Lines, Opera

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• There are people like me who are not there yet, who are still the eagle flying high right now, still experiencing more in the world and growing as a result of that - and that is my journey.

  Karan Bajaj

  Journey, Flying High, Eagles

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I have not seen "Batman v Superman," unfortunately. It hasn't been on the plane, as I've been flying a lot.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Planes

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• And ever since then [I] have set up businesses basically out of frustration. I mean, I set up Virgin Atlantic with one second-hand 747 because I hated the experience of flying on other people's airlines. And I thought, you know, I could try to create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. And people liked it.

  Richard Branson

  Mean, Frustration, Hands

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• There's that statement, "A picture is worth a thousand words" - well, I think flying around in Google Earth is worth a million words.

  Rebecca Moore

  Thinking, Google, Earth

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• I'm not a rock star, I'm not Seane Corne or Shiva Rea or Rodney Yee or Baron (Baptiste) or John Friend, and thank God, because there's just too much risk of getting hit by flying tomatoes if you stick out that much.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  Stars, Rocks, Risk

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• I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.

  James Lipton

  Horse, Airplane, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• It simply isn't true, for example, that being big is in general better for fitness than being small except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that flying slow and high is in general better for fitness than flying fast and low except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that being monogamous is in general better for fitness than being polygamous... except when there are effects of interacting variables... It's not that the underlying generalizations are there but imperceptible in the ambient noise.

  Jerry Fodor

  Example, Variables, Noise

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.

  Andy Rooney

  Waiting, Hours, Minutes

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• When you're working, you're flying on someone else's buck. When you're flying on your own, you sort of go, 'You know what, I'd rather keep the dosh in my pocket to spend when I get there.

  Luke Evans

  Bucks, Pockets, Knows

  Source: www.elle.com

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