Flying Quotes - Page 29

• It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.

  Laura Miller

  Butterfly, Feelings, Mind

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• The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

  Virginia Postrel

  Air, Luxury, Imagination

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• Writing is a deeply immersive experience.  When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice.  I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.

  Monica Ali

  Writing, Escaping, Boredom

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• My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO.' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only thing that she felt strongly about was that to say a ship was unsinkable was flying in the face of God. Those were her words.

  Eva Hart

  Mother, Ships, Faces

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• One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.

  A. S. J. Tessimond

  Rain, Winter, Simple

  A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber

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• And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

  Story Musgrave

  Military, People, Pilots

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe trail, the beckoning of far-off hills and valleys, the majesty of the tempest, the calm and silent presence of the trees that seem to muse and ponder in their silence; the trust and confidence of small living creatures, the company of simple men; these have been my inspiration and my guide. Without them I am nothing.

  Grey Owl

  Inspiration, Men, Simple

  Grey Owl (2010). “Pilgrims of the Wild”, p.28, Dundurn

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• Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.

  David Neeleman

  People, Wife, Dallas

  "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". SFGate Interview, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

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• Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is your awareness, your inborn openness and clarity.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Wind, Feelings, Looks

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• There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.

  Theo Cowan

  Travel, Funny Travel, Dangerous

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• What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love, Bird, Joy

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.

  T.C. Boyle

  Prayer, Hands, Joy

  T.C. Boyle (1999). “T.C. Boyle Stories”, p.348, Penguin

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• I hate the calendar, which is both a circle and a straight line, a wheel and an arrow, grinding each anniversary, each day a reminder of my failures, my lost plans, unfulfilled objectives and wishes, the days aren't taken off the calendar, subtracted one by one, but added, another small stone accumulated, another foot moved ahead, the arrow flying forward instead of falling back to earth, when all I want is a complete stop.

  Gregory Galloway

  Hate, Fall, Taken

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• They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Shore

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1874). “Songs from the Southern Seas: And Other Poems”, p.190

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• Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first ninety-four years, I became convinced that the Fed was flying by the seat of its pants, making it up as it went along. It was evident that its aim was to stop the hissy fit on Wall Streetm and that the thread of a Great Depression 2.0 was just a cover story for a panicked spree of money printing that exceeded any other episode in recorded human history.

  David Stockman

  Wall, Years, Elephants

  "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America". Book by David Stockman, 2013.

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• Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows have created in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. This novel is a delightful mix of fine writing, powerful emotions, glorious settings and amazing characters who deal with life in a way that will have readers falling in love on every single page.

  Kris Radish

  Falling In Love, Powerful, Character

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• Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

  Will Carleton

  Fall, Boys, Fire

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• Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

  Chuck Daly

  Jobs, Airplane, Land

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• The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Butterfly, Wings, Dying

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• The conversation between Fletcher and Jonathan Livingston Seagull is centered on why some have achieved more than others . . . are they divine . . . ahead of their times . . . Fletcher says, Well, this kind of flying has always been here to be learned by anybody who wanted to discover it; that's got nothing to do with time. We're ahead of the fashion, maybe. Ahead of the way most gulls fly. Poor Fletch. Don't you believe what your eyes are telling you? All they show is limitations. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

  Richard Bach

  Fashion, Time, Believe

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• Now, let's see how you fare against the Flying Dutchman and her vile captain, Davy Jones!

  Davy Jones

  Captains

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• There's something in a flying horse,
  There's something in a huge balloon.

  William Wordsworth

  Horse, Balloons, Huge

  'Peter Bell' (1819) prologue, l. 1

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• You cannot get one nickel for commercial flying.

  Inglis M. Uppercu

  Aviation, Nickels, Airline

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• I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.

  Naomi Campbell

  Humorous, Mind, Air Travel

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• When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.

  Martin Amis

  Aviation, Nervous, Valium

  "Did I say that? Martin Amis" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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