Flying Quotes

• There's a film that I wrote that I want to do called 'The Grey,' which is about a group of pipeline workers in Alaska flying back into civilization after being remote for a number of months. The 737 they're on goes down, and they begin to be hunted by a pack of rogue wolves.

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • Flying

• You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

  

  Link Wray
  • Flying

• I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain.

  

  Amy Johnson
  • Flying
  • Side
  • Striving

• I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Scary
  • Flying

• Don't overdo the booze especially while flying - just because it's there doesn't mean you need to drink it. Everything in moderation.

  

  Alan Titchmarsh
  • Flying
  • Drink
  • Moderation

• For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Magic
  • Humans
  • Physics

• I think, just the exhilaration of flying. The freedom of the air. The freedom of flight. And you completely remove yourself from the world. And you can voluntarily remove yourself from all those...everything that's near and dear to you. And you voluntarily return.

  

  Nancy Bird Walton
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Air

• Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days.

  

  Will Carleton
  • Sweet
  • Autumn
  • Golden

• I've never been truly hammered... Never. Not even in college. I was too busy driving or flying away on weekends doing shows around Texas and the country.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • Country
  • College
  • Driving

• It's been cool to catch up, but I think I'm done with my exes. To be honest, I went out with flying colors on the majority of them.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Up
  • Done
  • Cool

• I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.

  

  T. Graham Brown
  • Adventure
  • Wanted
  • Everything

• I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post.

  

  Vaginal Davis
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• Every day, every time I sing, I feel blessed, really, to be able to do that. It's like having wings, in a way. It's a bit like flying sometimes, because you go off into another realm. And a whole lot of people come with you. It's amazing.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • People
  • Time
  • Amazing

• In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in the astronaut business, we have a saying, which is, 'There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.'

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Flying

• There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Horse
  • Huge
  • Balloons

• You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying ships, of real-time genetic mutation. More than alien. More than human! The next step in our evolution as a species!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Time
  • Real
  • Alien

• The Flying Scotsman was the first train, ever, to do 100 MPH. 147 tons doing the ton.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Flying

• I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Future
  • Car
  • Flying

• In the fall of 1973, Erica Jong assaulted the last surviving bastions of old-fashioned modesty with her 'Fear of Flying.'

  

  Alistair Horne
  • Fear
  • Fall
  • Flying

• The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.

  

  Kelly Preston
  • Husband
  • Flying

• I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

  

  Kent McCord
  • Time
  • Fly
  • Flying

• Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads.

  

  John Kricfalusi
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Flying

• Whenever you do a movie, it's a culture shock. Who is it? Where are you? What are you doing? Who are these people? Where are you going now? It's kind of like how somebody describes private flying: It's hours of monotony punctuated by moments of stark terror. That's what it's like anywhere in the world, whether you're in Texas or Bucharest.

  

  William Atherton
  • People
  • World
  • Culture

• From flying in the cockpit of an A-10 to chairing hearings on Capitol Hill, I've learned that each of us will face struggles as we pursue our goals.

  

  Martha McSally
  • Goals
  • Flying

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