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

• I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Song

• 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

• No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.

  

  Banesh Hoffmann
  • Light
  • Bird
  • Flight

• 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

• Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

  

  Epictetus
  • Attention
  • Strangers
  • Join

• 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

• It was a love of perpetual flight.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Love
  • Flight
  • Perpetual

• Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of...

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • People
  • Power
  • Disabilities

• All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • World
  • Real
  • Problem

• There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.

  

  Sonita Alizadeh
  • Great
  • Change
  • Deal

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

  

  Steve Fossett
  • Flight
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  • Adventurers