Flying Quotes - Page 8

• Whenever the weather licks the pilot instead of him lickin' the weather, he's finished. The first time makes the second time easier. And the first thing he knows, he's in trouble when the weather is perfect.

  Frank Wead

  Weather, Perfect, Pilots

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• If falling in love is like taking off or flying, then love is like landing.

  Ayala Malakh-Pines

  Love, Fall, Landing

  Ayala Malakh-Pines (2005). “Falling in Love: Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose”, p.78, Taylor & Francis

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• The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.

  Elton John

  Mean, Vegas, Three

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• You know what I'm talking about. This business has changed. Flyers aren't pilots anymore, they're engineers. This is a college man's game. Our work is done. The pioneering is over.

  Frank Wead

  College, Men, Talking

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• It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Air, Discovery, Perfection

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• If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.

  Bill Nye

  Lying, Believe, Mean

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• In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds.

  Erich Hartmann

  Use, Fancy, Succeed

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• The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wall, Fall, Blow

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

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• Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or brushback pitch. This is why record numbers of home runs are flying out of ballparks, why earned run averages are soaring, and why there are so few twenty game winners in the majors.

  Frank Robinson

  Baseball, Running, Home

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

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• This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Reflection, Water

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• Soldiers join the military to serve their country, but when bullets are flying, it's hard to fight for an abstract notion like patriotism. They're fighting for the people standing next to them, and it doesn't matter who's a Republican or a Democrat, or who's black or white or Christian or Muslim or gay or straight. If Congress and all Americans could manage to ignore those differences, we would have a perfect country, but somehow we cannot rise to that level of nobility.

  Sebastian Junger

  Christian, Country, Military

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone... and to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine.

  Max Nordau

  Generations, Machines, Half

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• Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.

  Curt Siodmak

  Beauty, Beautiful, Jumping

  "Fictional character: Paul Holland". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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• Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

  Ronald Reagan

  Flames, Trying, Flags

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• When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind - with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows
  the laws of God and can apply them?

  Florence Nightingale

  Home, Wind, Law

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.97, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• In the dark days of your life, you will need the wings of hope to continue flying.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Dark, Wings

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• Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing
  pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.

  Ann Richards

  Children, Airplane, Talking

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• And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Clouds, Space, Leaving

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1998). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too amazed for words, Stare at the flying fleets of wondrous birds.

  Thomas Gray

  Eye, Sky, Long

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• Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, I would clear myself and then repeat the process. I never pursued the enemy once they had eluded me. Better to break off and set up again for a new assault. I always began my attacks from full strength, if possible, my ideal flying height being 22,000 ft because at that altitude I could best utilize the performance of my aircraft. Combat flying is based on the slashing attack and rough maneuvering.

  Erich Hartmann

  Break Off, Enemy, Height

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• I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

  Tom Paulin

  Thinking, Ideas, Energy

  "Literature's loose cannon" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2002.

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• I think there's the element of the excitement of what I'm going to see, and with the special effects where you see men flying and walking through walls and shooting flame or whatever they do, especially the younger audiences, which make up a bulk of the moviegoers, they love that sort of thing.

  Stan Lee

  Wall, Men, Thinking

  "Stan Lee Delves Into the Past of Iron Man". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 30, 2008.

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• My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. That's the real goal.

  Alexander Payne

  Real, Ideas, Goal

  Source: collider.com

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• Whenever I watched this movie ["How to Train Your Dragon"], I thought, "That's where I want to be. I want to be up in that sky. I want to be flying through the clouds and be living in that environment." So I think if I had a dragon, I would spend most of my time up in the air all over the place and taking in this beautiful planet.

  Gerard Butler

  Beautiful, Thinking, Clouds

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• Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached .96 Mach. I noticed that the faster I got, the smoother the ride. Suddenly the Mach needle began to fluctuate. It went up to .965 Mach - then tipped right off the scale ... We were flying supersonic. And it was a smooth as a baby's bottom; Grandma could be sitting up there sipping lemonade.

  Chuck Yeager

  Baby, Grandma, Feet

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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