Steve Fossett (James Stephen "Steve" Fossett) Quotes

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

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• When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Test

• I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Flight
  • Floating

• If a hundred people want autographs, sometimes you have to say no because you've got to get up for a 4 A.M. flight or something. In that sense, it really pisses me off when people think you've become a diva. It's not becoming a diva, it's because of the situation, I think.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Moon
  • Flight
  • Apollo 11

• We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

  

  Alexandra Ripley
  • People
  • Home
  • Challenge

• My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • God
  • Children
  • Humanity

• For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller. Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air. Later when asked what it felt like, I said, "It felt as though angels were pushing".

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Time
  • Air
  • Flying

• And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Lost
  • Firsts
  • Flight

• Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Freedom
  • Wings
  • Flight

• My wife made me join a bridge club... I jump off next Tuesday.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Wife
  • Jump
  • Bridge

• The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Water
  • Building

• I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.

  

  Sophocles
  • Hate
  • Born
  • Join

• I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Beautiful
  • Simple
  • Cinema

• We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • House
  • Join
  • Wagon Move

• Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Sea
  • Flight
  • Farewell

• I hope we can join eighteen other states in saying that $5.15 an hour is not enough.

  

  Doug Jackson Ambrosia
  • Hope
  • Saying
  • States

• I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • Music
  • Scene
  • Join

• Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Dance
  • Join
  • Will You

• My discussion is one that has gone all the way from Fistful of Dollars through Once Upon a Time in America. But if you look closely at all these films, you find in them the same meanings, the same humor, the same point of view, and, also, the same pains.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • America
  • Pain
  • Film

• You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Prayer
  • Charity
  • Lord

• A truth of the gospel is not a truth until you live it. You do not really believe in tithing until you pay it. The word of wisdom to you is not a truth of the gospel until you keep it. The Sabbath day is not a holy day unless you observe it. . . . A friend is not a friend unless you defend him.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Truth

• I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you're trying to recreate something lifelike.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Thought
  • Hell
  • Cynicism

• This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

  

  Steve Fossett
  • Flight
  • Join
  • Adventurers