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

• To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Kind
  • Mean

• I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Farmer
  • PC

• When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Up
  • She
  • Book

• Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

  

  Nellie McClung
  • Nations
  • Citizenship
  • Destined

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

  

  Steve Fossett
  • Flight
  • Join
  • Adventurers