Flying Quotes - Page 35

• I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Art, Fall, Swimming

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.210, Univ of California Press

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• ... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all taxpayers. The rich directly benefit, since greedy politicians are unable to seize as much of their money. And the rest of us benefit, since this puts downward pressure on tax rates as governments try to keep the geese that lay the golden eggs from flying away.

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  Government, Eggs, Political

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• I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Beautiful, Men, Light

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• The man I marvel at is the one that's in there day after day, and night after night and still puts the figures on the board. I'm talking about Pete Rose, Stan Musial, the real stars. Believe me, especially the way we travel today, flying all night with a game the next night and then the next afternoon, if you can play one-hundred and sixty-two games, you're a man.

  Sparky Anderson

  Stars, Real, Believe

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• There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield.

  Lewis Howard Latimer

  Yield, Promise, Vistas

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• I've been on what I call my UFO Tour, which means, like UFOs, I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately.

  Bill Hicks

  Southern, Towns, Handful

  "Flying Saucer Tour Vol. I". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 2002.

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• There's an image of Rapunzel free, flying in the air, as a sunburst, which says so much. This is a girl who has to get out and bless the world.

  Glen Keane

  Girl, Air, World

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• He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
  [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Machines, Stuck

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• Dripping rain like golden honey-
  And the sweet earth flying from the thunder

  Jean Toomer

  Sweet, Rain, Earth

  Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.10, UNC Press Books

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• But if we establish the working hypothesis that the UFOs are machines, we also have to assume the following:
  a) They are not built by human beings..
  b) They are flying by means of artificial fields of gravity..
  c) They produce high-tension electric charges in order to push the air out of their paths, so it does not start glowing, and strong magnetic fields to influence the ionized air at higher altitudes.

  Hermann Oberth

  Strong, Mean, Air

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• Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and strong, is also largely pneumatic - especially in the bigger birds. The beak, skull, feet, and all the other bones of a 25-pound pelican have been found to weigh but 23 ounces.

  Guy Murchie

  Strong, Skeletons, Skulls

  Guy Murchie (2016). “Song of the Sky”, p.220, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.

  Wallace Stevens

  Light, Sight, Bird

  Wallace Stevens, John N. Serio, Robert Gantt Steele (2004). “Wallace Stevens”, p.16, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who were developing flying were laughed at as mad, and that scorn hindered aviation. Now we heap similar ridicule upon stratoplane or rocket ships for trans-Atlantic flights.

  Auguste Piccard

  Believe, Years, Europe

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• We're different, we're the same. You thought you'd never find a word to say to a woman who didn't fly airplanes. I couldn't imagine myself spending time with a man who didn't love music. Could it be it's not as important to be alike as it is to be curious? Because we're different, we can have the fun of exchanging worlds, giving our loves and excitements to each other. You can learn music, I can learn flying. And that's only the beginning. I think it would go on for us as long as we live.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Fun, Learning

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• Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the tiny insects crawling in the grass: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the fish in the river and sea….There is no creature on earth in whom God is absent… his breath had brought every creature to life… God’s spirit is present within plant as well. The presence of God’s spirit in all living things is what makes them beautiful; and if we look with God’s eyes, nothing on earth is ugly.

  Pelagius

  Beautiful, Eye, Animal

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• I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere.

  Bobbie Ann Mason

  Distance, Ideas, Ponds

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• It is actually quite exciting when you're flying headfirst into a barrier — the initial part, the initial part is actually quite fun, especially when you hit the gravel trap and you get some air, and then you see it coming and you think 'erk — it's gonna hurt!'

  Lewis Hamilton

  Hurt, Fun, Thinking

  "Top Gear" with Richard Hammond, December 02, 2007.

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• Good flying never killed an enemy yet.

  Mick Mannock

  Enemy, Aviation, Combat

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• The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself.

  Billy Bishop

  Military, Fighting, Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so much as to hit him as to frighten him, and I succeeded in catching him. He began flying curves and this enabled me to draw near.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Mean, Curves, Shooting

  Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.134, Pen and Sword

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• Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew fourengines bombers during World War II. He was in B17 Flying Fortresses out of England, they say. His cautious, conservative approach to every situation and the complexity of the plays he sends in do seem to reflect the philosophy of a pilot trained to doggedly press on according to plans laid down before takeoff. I sometimes wonder how the Cowboys would have fared all this years had Tom flown fighters in combat situations which dictated continuously changing tactics.

  Len Morgan

  Philosophy, War, Believe

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• For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

  Jim Lovell

  Challenges, Aviation, Combat

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• . . . It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought from my brain with the swipe of a paw. I sit there, flying on, and continue to stare, as though mesmerised, at the Cauldron on my left.

  Ernst Udet

  Blood, Brain, Veins

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• It got more exciting with each war. I mean the planes were going faster than hell when I was flying a Mustang, but by the time I got to Nam, it scared the piss out of a lot of guys just to fly the damn jets at full speed. Let alone do it in combat.

  Robin Olds

  War, Mean, Guy

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• Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mean, Thinking, Effort

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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