Flying Quotes - Page 39

• A duck tastes the same whether they're shot sitting or flying.

  Jase Robertson

  Ducks, Sitting, Taste

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• The magnificent thing about her [Amelia Earhart] is, in the eyes of the world, she simply never died. Her fear never witnessed, her failure never recorded, her shiny twin-engine Electra never recovered. Earhart's legacy of inspiration is amplified because her adventure is perpetual. We don't think of her as dead; we think of her as missing. She is forever flying, somewhere beyond Lae, over that limitless blue horizon.

  Josh Gates

  Inspiration, Adventure, Eye

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• We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable.

  Richard Dawkins

  Monsters, Fantasy, Fairy

  "Why There Almost Certainly Is No God" by Richard Dawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2006.

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• God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash
  a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past

  Ani DiFranco

  Eye, Past, Phoenix

  Song: 32 Flavors

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• The autumn hill gathers the remaining light, A flying bird chases after its companion. The green color is bright And brings me into the moment, like a sunset mist that has no fixed place.

  Wang Wei

  Summer, Sunset, Autumn

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• Writing is a deeply immersive experience.  When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice.  I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.

  Monica Ali

  Writing, Escaping, Boredom

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• A number of revelators and UFO contactees have since mentioned to me that just before the appearance of an entity they were aware of a strange buzzing sound. Witnesses of unexplained aerial phenomenon have also referred to a buzzing or rushing sound shortly before the 'flying saucer' appeared over them. I am also reminded that great deal of poltergeist activity produces a preparatory 'signal' of a buzzing, rasping, or winding noise.

  Brad Steiger

  Rushing, Numbers, Noise

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• A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

  Charles Ives

  Music, Song, Rights

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• Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now old and broken , creaking in the breeze -- turns slowly, slowly in the winter sun, sweeping the rusty roof of the barn with the pale blue lacework of her shadow.

  Ted Kooser

  Winter, Light, Blue

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• I yell and scream like they do. I'm the worst of them. Totally. I'm a nightmare. Once they gave me the passport that was it - started throwing my hands in the air, drinking red wine and flying off the handle.

  John Kirwan

  Drinking, Wine, Air

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• I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. "How fared it with the wind," I said, "When stroke increased the pace? You swung it forward mightily, you heaved it greatly back. "Your muscles rose in knotted lumps, I almost heard the crack. "And while we roared and rattled too, your eyes were fixed like glue. "What thoughtwent flying through your mind, how fared it, Five, with you?" But Five made answer solemnly, "I heard them fire a gun, "No other mortal thing I heard until the Race was done."

  R. C. Lehmann

  Eye, Gun, Fire

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• The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying, as if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Baseball, Workout, Wings

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• We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks to dig a little well for water. A fool indeed is the man who, living near a mine of diamonds, spends his life in searching for beads of glass." God is that mine of diamonds. We are fools indeed to give up God for legends of ghosts or flying hobgoblins. It is a disease, a morbid desire.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Men, Glasses

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.41, editionNEXT.com

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• I have a strong feeling about interesting people in space exploration. . . . And the only way it's going to happen is to have some kid fantasize about getting his ray gun, jumping into his spaceship, and flying into outer space.

  George Lucas

  Strong, Kids, Gun

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• Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

  Joseph LeConte

  Future, Self, Machines

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• There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Grandfather, Predictions

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• Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

  Richard Branson

  Future, Space, People

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• We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel guests will be able to take breath-taking excursions, flying a couple of hundred feet above the Moon's surface in small two-man spaceships. In time, we will launch missions to Mars and beyond.

  Richard Branson

  Couple, Future, Men

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• The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Wall, Reality

  Stephen King (2016). “Insomnia”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

  Martin Luther

  Life Changing, Hair, Nests

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• Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sleep, Winter, Rivers

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• In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  Neil Armstrong

  Science, Survival, Pilots

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• The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

  Adrian Bejan

  Running, Swimming, Impact

  "Everybody's Doing the Locomotion". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.

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• Anyone can fly. All you need is somewhere to go that you can't get to any other way. The next thing you know, you're flying among the stars.

  Faith Ringgold

  Stars, Needs, Way

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• One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

  Tom Clancy

  Life, Weather, Awful

  Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.136, Penguin

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