Flying Quotes - Page 5

• So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.

  Rex Hunt

  Lakes, Air, Sea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

  Leroy Chiao

  Aircraft

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• I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.

  Harun Yahya

  Inspirational, Success, Travel

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• Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Birthday, Women

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

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• What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! - Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport; Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now! He takes away my breath! He makes me reel! I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All Is ecstasy of motion!

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Sports, Fire, Air

  James Sheridan Knowles (1837). “The Daughter: A Play in Five Acts”

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• The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.

  Wallace Stevens

  Moving, Rivers, Blackbirds

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.94, Vintage

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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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• If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

  Harriet Quimby

  Women, Clothes, Want

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• I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

  Martin Scorsese

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• Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing.

  Marlon Riggs

  Gay, Justice, Diversity

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• Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

  Jacques Lacan

  Writing, Wind, Insane

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• If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Funny, Life, Flower

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• The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it will have specialized uses, and in these it will surpass the aeroplane. The fact that you can land at your front door is the reason you can't carry heavy loads efficiently.

  Emile Berliner

  Technology, Land, Doors

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  God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

  Pat Summitt

  God, Faith, Rooms

  Pat Head Summitt, Sally Jenkins (2013). “Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective”, p.376, Crown Archetype

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• A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fear, Taken, Cutting

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

  Michael P. Anderson

  Hanging On, Rockets

  "Disaster in space" by Robin McKie, Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2003.

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

  Walter Alexander Raleigh

  Heart, Soul, Pilots

  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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• People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

  Nigel Kneale

  Believe, People, Bottom

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• I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Travel, Interesting, People

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• I’d like to have the flying car, I think that’d be really cool.

  Rupert Grint

  Thinking, Flying Cars, Really Cool

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• Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

  James Dickey

  Men, Pilots, Aviation

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

  Orson Welles

  Travel, Journey, Emotional

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• I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

  Jeri Ryan

  Space, Hanging Out, My Friends

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• If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Joy, Firsts, Emotion

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• My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

  John L. Phillips

  Dad, War, Inspiration

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