Flying Quotes - Page 35

• And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.

  Tim Winton

  Wall, Block, Light

  Tim Winton (2014). “The Riders”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing was not fast enough, so we rolled merrily along on long metal tracks. Long metal tracks were not fast enough, so we drove. Driving was not fast enough, so we flew. Flying isn't fast enough for us. We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Men, Long

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Tent”, p.89, Anchor

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• Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a ... crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks ... and it required ... flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.

  Neil Armstrong

  Rocks, Numbers, Long

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• I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking at the wheel of the airplane as we rolled down the runway, because I wanted to remember the exact moment that I first went flying... the other thing growing up is that I was always interested in science.

  David M. Brown

  Growing Up, Airplane, Age

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• As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.

  Johannes Kepler

  Art, Moon, Men

  Johannes Kepler (1965). “Kepler's Conversation with Galileo's Sidereal messenger”

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• What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trilled as the flying beaks clove the air. Their cry was shrill and clear and fine and falling like threads of silken light unwound from whirring spools.

  James Joyce

  Fall, Light, Air

  James Joyce (1996). “James Joyce: The Poems in Verse and Prose”, Trafalgar Square

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• ...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there.

  Joshua Slocum

  Lying, One Direction, Land

  Joshua Slocum (2009). “The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.29, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn't a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they're not in the sky

  Adam Rapp

  Song, Heart, Talking

  Adam Rapp (2011). “33 Snowfish”, p.35, Candlewick Press

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• The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of the east in wedge-shaped formation, and the mist lifted in soft wreaths of sun-shot silver. Colour came back to the world. The grass glowed with a green so vivid that it seemed pulsing, like flame, from some hidden fire in the earth, the distant woods took on all the amazing deep crimsons and purples of their winter colouring, the banks were studded with their jewels of lichens and bright moss, and above the wet hedges shone with sun-shot orbs of light.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Winter, Fire, Light

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• Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.

  Cesar Aira

  Flower, Moon, Bird

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• I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the art of the swing. All you needed then was a little push, and quickly you were pumping away, flying higher and higher, without any more help from the 'coach.'

  John Kessel

  Sports, Art, Player

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• I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Dream, Home, Reality

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• Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Kneeling, Firsts, Blind

  Michael Morpurgo (2012). “War Horse”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

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• I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.

  Lily Aldridge

  Ideas, No Idea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dust, Controversy, Falsehood

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• The biggest problem is getting beyond the "you can't" syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you're on your way to flying. Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

  Bill Drayton

  Skills, Creative, Sitting

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• You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

  William Anders

  Baseball, Glowing, Flames

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• Whether or not I tour forever, I'm not sure. I would love to spend more time living in harmony with nature rather than flying all over the world and contributing to global warming, you know what I mean?

  Jason Mraz

  Mean, Forever, World

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• I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not.

  Richard P. Feynman

  People, Appreciate, Problem

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• Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying saucers piloted by little gray aliens from some other dimension.

  Robert A. Baker

  Stars, Journey, Principles

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• One: There is a low limit of weight [of about] 50 pounds beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly. Two: The animal machine is far more effective than any we can hope to make. Three: The weight of any machine constructed for flying, including fuel and engineer, cannot be less than three or four hundred pounds. Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

  Joseph LeConte

  Animal, Self, Two

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• Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Journey, Air

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

  Eli Roth

  Sharks, Trying, Faces

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• Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.

  Logan Henderson

  Superpower, Ultimate

  "Exclusive Q&A: Big Time Rush". Interview with Gayatri Rajagopalan, www.teenvogue.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Weekend, Player

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

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