Flying Quotes - Page 37

• 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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• There is a town in north Ontario,
  With dream comfort memory to spare,
  And in my mind
  I still need a place to go,
  All my changes were there.
  
  Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
  Yellow moon on the rise,
  Big birds flying across the sky,
  Throwing shadows on our eyes.

  Neil Young

  Dream, Stars, Memories

  Neil Young (2008). “Neil Young - Greatest Hits (Songbook)”, p.23, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Blow, Sky

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, song (added 1850)

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• If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you?

  Lucille Clifton

  Girl, Mother, Husband

  Lucille Clifton (2013). “The Book of Light”, p.41, Copper Canyon Press

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  I guess if you don't jump, you'll never know if you can fly.

  Miranda Lambert

  Knows, Ifs

  Song: New Strings, Album: Kerosene, 2005

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• I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Sky, Wings, Spread

  Song: Breakaway, Album: Breakaway, 2004

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• Let your soul and spirit fly.

  Van Morrison

  Soul, Spirit, Your Soul

  Song: Introduction: Into the Mystic

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• I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive
  I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise
  To fly.

  Nicki Minaj

  Fighting, Winning, Conquer

  Song: Fly I Believe I Can Fly, Album: Pink Friday

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• Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Running, Song, Might

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• One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.

  Tomas Eloy Martinez

  Persons, Oneself, Asks

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