Flights Quotes

• The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except Antarctica, they're in tropical rain forests, they're in deserts, they've evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they're capable of incredibly long-distance flights.

  

  Michael Dickinson
  • Stories
  • Capable
  • Incredibly

• There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • Inspiration
  • Moon
  • Leaving

• Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Genius
  • Regions
  • Imitate

• Sometimes people here can get so focused on, Oh, I've got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, Okay, is that all there is in life? No, it's not. There's a whole big life out there.

  

  Shannon Lucid
  • Life
  • Big
  • Flights

• I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Remember
  • Flights
  • First Class

• Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • People
  • Flights
  • Fingernails

• A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Air
  • Rain
  • Stillness

• A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Soul
  • Atmosphere
  • Flights

• It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. Man is too quick at forming conclusions. Let him but indistinctly see a thing, or even be undecided as to whether he does actually see it and he will then and there set himself to theorizing, and build immense castles of conjecture on a foundation, of whose existence he is by no means certain.

  

  Edward E. Barnard
  • Ideas
  • See
  • Foundation

• I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things that you remember most after your flights are the interactions you've had with your crew. Those are the most satisfying things you take away from a flight.

  

  Shannon Lucid
  • Crew
  • Flights
  • Interactions

• This is a test case of a casino going under the radar that is doing extremely well, there is no other destination I know where the junket and casino organize 25 charter flights a week from China.

  

  Ben Lee
  • Destination
  • Radar
  • Casino

• It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

  

  Edward E. Barnard
  • Wings
  • Flights
  • Fetter

• In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

  

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
  • Flights
  • Restricting

• As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

  

  Mike Wallace
  • Eyes
  • Search
  • Flights

• We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Home
  • Purpose
  • Poet

• As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who were developing flying were laughed at as mad, and that scorn hindered aviation. Now we heap similar ridicule upon stratoplane or rocket ships for trans-Atlantic flights.

  

  Auguste Piccard
  • Developing
  • Aviation
  • Flights

• Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.

  

  Michael O'Leary
  • People
  • Rich
  • Flights

• I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

  

  Joseph Force Crater
  • Aviation
  • Flights
  • Contacts

• I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Adventure
  • Plane
  • Flights

• I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

  

  Steve Fossett
  • Books
  • Distance
  • Flights