Flying Quotes - Page 38

• Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the equipment.

  Steve Fossett

  Communication, Care, Balloons

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• I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.

  Cindy Gallop

  Fun, Careers, Married

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• For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Country, Fighting, Years

  "Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Looking down on creation". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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• Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

  Alan Bradley

  Growing Up, Tired, Talking

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• I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.

  Marvin Gaye

  Believe, Boys, Men

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• I was flying back from Lubbock and I saw Jesus on the plane, or maybe it was Elvis. You know, they kind of look the same.

  Don Henley

  Jesus, Looks, Saws

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• You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Inspirational, Believe, Wings

  Song: Believer

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• I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.

  Tom Petty

  Tree, Musical, Singing

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• A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back. As soon as we can see clearly with our big black eye, we're going to light up your world like the fourth of July.

  Toby Keith

  Eye, July, Light

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• Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?

  Tori Amos

  Religious, Brother, Law

  Song: Muhammad My Friend, Album: Boys for Pele

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• I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

  Puff Daddy

  Silly, Men, Biggie

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• I am terrified of flying. I am a wreck right before I get on an airplane. That, and the ocean. I can only get in there for 10 minutes, I have this strong urge to run out and I won't go back in for the rest of the day. I've always been like that.

  Kyle Gallner

  Running, Strong, Ocean

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

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• Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

  Retief Goosen

  Brother, Dad, Golf

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• Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your life. Everybody has.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Cynical, Waiting, Sentimental

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• It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.

  Steven Johnson

  Achievement, President, United States

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• During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.

  Ken Jennings

  Secret, Trying, Would Be

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• I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

  Stephen Stills

  Rock And Roll, Names, Flags

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• Some find it in their lovers eyes, who can deny the joy it brings. When you've found that special thing, you're flying without wings.

  Ruben Studdard

  Romantic, Eye, Wings

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• I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.

  Randy Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Enemy

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• I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

  Tibor Kalman

  Imperfection, Insanity, Attention

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• You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.

  Rachel McAdams

  Eye, Thinking, Doe

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• The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.

  Burt Rutan

  Criticism, Interest, Loses

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• By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?

  Burt Rutan

  Doors, Years, Space

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• I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.

  Burt Rutan

  Fun, War, Airplane

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• When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

  Michael Richards

  Two, Cameras, Goes On

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