Pilots And Flying Quotes - Page 2

• Two wrongs don't make a right.

  Roald Dahl

  Revenge, Humorous, Math

  Roald Dahl (2016). “The GFG: The Guid Freendly Giant: The BFG in Scots”, p.145, Black & White Publishing

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• My first wife didn't like to fly, either.

  Gordon Baxter

  Funny, Wife, Firsts

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• Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

  Amelia Earhart

  Travel, Fun, Flying

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• In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

  Robert Benchley

  Travel, Children, Airplane

  Pluck and Luck (1925)

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• Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

  Richard Bach

  Simple, Flying, Rooms

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• The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

  Cesar Pelli

  Running, Badass, Bad Ass

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• The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

  Mark Russell

  Inspirational, Hilarious, Funny Life

  "Frequent Flyer Humor and One-Upmanship". Book by George W. Stewart, Dog Ear Publishing, p. 12, 2011.

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• The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

  Bill Gates

  Travel, Brother, Writing

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• No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Air, Flying, Inspire

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• There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

  Orson Welles

  Travel, Journey, Emotional

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

  Neil Armstrong

  Science, Flying, Survival

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• You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

  Amelia Earhart

  Airplane, Sky, Tree

  "How Aerial Photography Changes A Photographer’s Perspective" by Heather Hummel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2014.

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• Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

  Pappy Boyington

  Funny, Humorous, Airplane

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• Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Motivational, Humorous

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• Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

  Plautus

  Wings, Flying, Aviation

  "Plautus: The little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The ro".

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• The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.

  Walter Alexander Raleigh

  Heart, Flying, Soul

  Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Henry Albert Jones (1922). “The War in the Air: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force ...”, The Clarendon Press

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• Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.

  William T. Piper

  Morning, Sky, Heaven

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• Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Travel, Land, Flying

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

  Yip Harburg

  Rainbow, Flying, Littles

  Song: Over the Rainbow

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• Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently.

  Beryl Markham

  Character, Yield, Hands

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

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• I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Airplane, Flying, Fear Of Flying

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• Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.

  William T. Piper

  Dog, Baby, Nature

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• If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Witty, Revenge

  Laurence J. Peter (1979). “Peter's people”, W. Morrow

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