Flying Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.

  Gabby Douglas

  Crazy, Thinking, Flying High

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• It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Appreciation, Adventure, Men

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember God likes us best when we are flying by the seats of our pants.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Pants, Likes, Remember

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• We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Heart, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.72

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• The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interest in and preoccupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them. An intellectual is a person whose thought is nonimitative.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Groups

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• At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Military, Historical, Half

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• There's so much world to see, what's stopping you from flying free?

  Eyedea

  Stopping, World, Flying Free

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• It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Moon, Clouds

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield0: In Three Volumes”, p.265

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• The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!

  Charles Dickens

  Blow, Clouds, Wind

  CHARLES DICKENS (1873). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.153

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• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Wine, Hair

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• Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

  Richard Bach

  Grief, Sorrow

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• All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Believe, Animal, Bird

  "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. Februry 26, 2013.

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• Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Letting Go, Jobs, Mistake

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• I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.

  Channing Tatum

  Dream, Jumping, Building

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• So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future.

  Peter Lynch

  College, Air, Dollars

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• This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth

  Stephen Hawking

  Time, Moving, Two

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• I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Dream, Way

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• If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Brother, Pioneers, Needs

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• It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.

  Pindar

  God, Men, Eagles

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a runway completely covered with French people, why are today's airplanes, which are equipped with radar and computers and individualized liquor bottles, unable to cope with fog?

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.234, Ballantine Books

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• Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, School

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild duck; and this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parents.

  Charles Darwin

  Change, Science, Skeletons

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text”, p.83, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• When my world seems to crumble all around, and foolish people try to bring me down, I just think of your smile face, and I'm flying.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Friendship, Thinking, People

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