Flying Quotes

• Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.

  

  Andy Behrman
  • Night
  • Thoughts
  • Paris

• Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

  

  James Gleick
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Air

• Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • Up
  • Space
  • Cool

• The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Individual
  • Flying
  • Accurate

• I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Up
  • Air
  • Flying

• The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Flying

• The reason I'm scared of flying is because I'm not in charge. Being so far out of control terrifies me.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Control
  • Flying

• Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Life
  • Job
  • Desire

• In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or the journey over multiple lifetimes is like a flight of an eagle. First, the eagle stretches its wings high, high, high, and experiences everything that the world has to offer in terms of flight. It's growing and flying and it's experiencing, and then it brings its wings down gracefully and that is the completion of the journey.

  

  Karan Bajaj
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Journey

• I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

  

  Chuck Yeager
  • Fear
  • Dying
  • Airplane

• I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

  

  Billy Bob Thornton
  • Fear
  • Flying

• I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

  

  Jane Horrocks
  • People
  • Flying

• I'm not the guy who does slo-mo, or I'm not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying or anything; that's not me. Every film, I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • People
  • Time
  • Guy

• We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

  

  Douglas Bader
  • Up
  • Enemy
  • Flying

• Bad people will find a way to do harm, whether it's homemade explosives, illegal weapons, or flying planes into buildings. Restricting law-abiding citizens' right to bear arms is not the answer.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • People
  • Bad
  • Law

• Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • Experience
  • Powerful
  • Air

• Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.

  

  Neil Armstrong
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Pride

• I don't really like long flights any more - I find them too tiring. Flying always involves the same things these days - huge crowds at airports, waiting around, late take-offs, weather problems, and so on. I don't really enjoy travelling. I don't imagine anyone does except young children.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Long
  • Children
  • Waiting

• Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?

  

  Alex Berenson
  • House
  • Flying

• The safety of the flying public should not be for sale. Handing air traffic control over to a private entity partly governed by the airlines is both a risk and liability we can't afford to take.

  

  Bill Nelson
  • Control
  • Air
  • Risk

• In L.A., if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers and producers are watching those shows. They're not flying to Chicago to see the show. People are booking jobs off the stages in L.A. who aren't more talented than the guys in Chicago. But the most guys book out of L.A., and the second is New York.

  

  Jake Johnson
  • People
  • Book
  • Chicago

• It is actually quite exciting when you're flying headfirst into a barrier-the initial part, the initial part is actually quite fun, especially when you hit the gravel trap and you get some air, and then you see it coming and you think 'erk-it's gonna hurt!'

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Fun
  • Air
  • Hurt

• I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.

  

  John Travolta
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Sports

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