Flight famous quotes

The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#World #Flight #Should

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
-- Adolf Galland

#Pilots #Firsts #Flight

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.
-- Alan Feduccia

#Bird #Evolution #Flight

You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.
-- Alan Shepard

#Real #Done #Flight

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.
-- Anzia Yezierska

#Bird #Fruit #Flight

A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.
-- Archibald MacLeish

#Bird #Flight #Should

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
-- Archilochus

#Life #Prudent #Flight

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

#Light #Bird #Flight

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
-- Bernhard Schlink

#Airplane #Flight #Failing

Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.
-- Bertrand Piccard

#Night #Another Day #Flight

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.
-- Bruce Schneier

#Excellence #Microsoft #Flight

Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.
-- Bruno Tonioli

#Differences #Long #Flight

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.
-- Caroline Wozniacki

#Player #Tennis #Flight

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.
-- Charles Dickens

#Love #Suffering #Flight

I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.
-- Charles Rolls

#Thinking #Flight #Predictions

My wife will tell you that I'm very particular and it's annoying for other people. I eat the same thing every day. I go to the gym at the same time every day. I go to L.A. all the time, so I take that same 9:30 flight. I will not take another one.
-- Chris Black

#People #Wife #Flight

I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator
-- Chris Colfer

#Flight #Elevators #Stairs

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone
-- Chris Cooper

#Losing #Flight #Best Work

Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.
-- Claudio Magris

#Journey #Flight #Standstill

My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me he is obsessed with.
-- Craig Stone

#Two #Four #Flight

You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs...
-- Dale Hansen

#Flight #Beats #Stairs

If you are made for flight, intended for it, you had better find a pursuer, fast. Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.
-- Dan Chiasson

#Fleeing #Flight #Made

Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight...
-- Diane Duane

#Snow #Flight #Possibility

Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.
-- Doug Larson

#Distance #Law #Flight

They tryna shoot down my flight before it lands
-- Drake

#Humble #Land #Flight

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.
-- E. B. White

#Writing #Firsts #Flight

The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.
-- Eberhard Bethge

#Responsibility #People #Flight

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
-- Edgar Allan Poe

#Soul #Body #Flight

Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

#Life #Cups #Flight

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.
-- Edward E. Barnard

#Wings #Fancy #Flight

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
-- Edward Young

#Blessing #Literature #Flight

The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam.
-- Elizabeth Knox

#Liquid #Flight #Invisible

I don't know of any issues associated with alcohol before flight.
-- Ellen Ochoa

#Issues #Alcohol #Flight

Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities.
-- Elton Gallegly

#Real #Boards #Flight

Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night
-- Emily Dickinson

#Good Night #Atheism #Flight

As long as the wrong feels right - it's like I'm in flight.
-- Eminem

#Funny #Long #Flight

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
-- F. L. Lucas

#Use #Panic #Flight

If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.
-- Fernand Point

#Chef #Flight #Dine

We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances
-- Florence Scovel Shinn

#Flight #Appearance #Prove

From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.
-- Frank Herman Schofield

#Military #Today #Flight

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.
-- Gary Zukav

#Flight #Perfectionism

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
-- Georg Hermes

#Arrows #Lasts #Flight

I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.
-- George Clooney

#Car #Deeds #Flight

Every flight begins with a fall.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Fall #Healing #Flight

With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane.
-- Glenn Curtiss

#Eye #Lines #Flight

By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]
-- Horace

#Wine #Care #Flight

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.
-- Izabella Scorupco

#World #Pilots #Flight

I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.
-- Jacqueline Cochran

#Girl #Men #Flight

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
-- James Dickey

#Men #Aviation #Flight

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
-- Jane Austen

#Inspirational #Imagination #Flight

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
-- Jane Byrne

#Flight #Policy #Persons

Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
-- Jean Racine

#Tyrants #Flight

Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.
-- Jeremy Brett

#Arrows #Trying #Flight

Acting time is like flight time: You can work on a simulator, you can rehearse, but unless you're really in front of the camera or on a stage - that's when you really learn how to work it.
-- John Kapelos

#Acting #Cameras #Flight

The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.
-- John S. Pistole

#Goes On #Lines #Flight

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird
-- Josephine Hart

#Bird #Flight #Traps

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.
-- Karl Kraus

#Miracle #Flight

They usually show movies on a flight like that.
-- Ken Coleman

#Baseball #Flight #Shows

Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.
-- Kobo Abe

#Punishment #Joy #Flight

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.
-- Kobo Abe

#Work #Men #Flight

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether." These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion.
-- Lawrence Durrell

#Emotion #Language #Flight

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Space #Important #Flight

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.
-- Linda M. Godwin

#Tasks #Flight #Theory

I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.
-- Louis Daguerre

#Light #Flight

Tom is back on a flight at 6:15 P.M. That is 6:15. Do you get it? Not 6:00 P.M. but 6:15 P.M. And do you know how many minutes that is? I do. I have also become a Time Lord.
-- Louise Rennison

#Flight #Lord #Minutes

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.
-- Marina Tsvetaeva

#Wings #Weight #Flight

Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although the view out (in flight) is better than you might expect; the profuseion of canopy struts is not particularly a problem. In addition to the above the small cockpit makes you feel more a part of the aeroplane.
-- Mark Hanna

#Views #Might #Flight

Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
-- Mark Nepo

#Knowing #Bird #Flight

Lean forward into your life... catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life.
-- Mary Anne Radmacher

#Wind #Flight #Changing Your Life

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.
-- Maya Lin

#Patterns #Resistance #Flight

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.
-- Michael Haneke

#Jumping #Giving #Flight

Obama is for the 300 million souls of the United States what Andreas Lubitz was for the 150 souls of the Germanwings flight...
-- Michele Bachmann

#Soul #United States #Flight

Flight is intolerable contradiction.
-- Muriel Rukeyser

#Flight #Contradiction

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.
-- Muriel Rukeyser

#Dream #Action #Flight

When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present the Lord.
-- Nate Saint

#Weight #Flight #Unnecessary

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
-- Neil Armstrong

#Roles #Firsts #Flight

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.
-- Octave Chanute

#Believe #Machines #Flight

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.
-- Ovid

#Grief #Flight #Draught

When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?
-- Pablo Neruda

#Hands #Flight #Leap

Life is the flight of the alone to the alone.
-- Plotinus

#Flight #Life Is

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all
-- Richard Bach

#Ideas #Perfect #Flight

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality,
-- Robert McKee

#Reality #Stories #Flight

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
-- Robert Smith

#Eight #Ballet #Flight

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.
-- Robin Gibb

#People #Rooms #Flight

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
-- Sally Ride

#Couple #Years #Flight

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
-- Sally Ride

#Space #Floating #Flight

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
-- Sally Ride

#Airplane #Flight #Physics

On both of my flights, everything went very well.
-- Sally Ride

#Flight #Wells

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
-- Sally Ride

#Years #Together #Flight

On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?
-- Sam Ewing

#Stupidity #Flight #Boat

The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply unforgettable.
-- Scott Carpenter

#Space #Views #Flight

More die in flight than in battle.
-- Selma Lagerlöf

#War #Battle #Flight

Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force. Even with such a discovery, we could not expect one to do more than carry its owner.
-- Simon Newcomb

#Men #Discovery #Flight

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp,
-- Stella Young

#Flight #Ramp #Stairs

Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.
-- Stephen Coonts

#Romance #Aviation #Flight

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

#Want #Aviation #Flight

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

#Distance #Book #Flight

How do you get off a non-stop flight?
-- Steven Wright

#Flight

That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight
-- Tiffanie DeBartolo

#Way #Flight

Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?
-- Tim Allen

#Reality #Denver #Flight