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

• This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Perfect
  • Spirit
  • Summer

• Before the Internet, if someone disappeared, it meant you should go looking for them. Now it means they got a life.

  

  Ashish Chauhan
  • Life
  • Looking
  • Disappeared

• A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such beauty.Clothing drops like leaves."No one makes poetry,my Mme.Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,"I whisper. She smiles: "We'll shape it withour souls."Desire illuminates the dark manuscriptof our skin with beetles and butterflies.After the lightning and rain has ceased,after the lightning and rain of lovemakinghas ceased, Selah will dive again into thesunflower-open river.

  

  George Elliott Clarke
  • Love
  • Rain
  • Skins

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

  

  Steve Fossett
  • Flight
  • Join
  • Adventurers