Quotes on flying
In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.
McElroy, Neil
... I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.
Bach, Richard
When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.
Letterman, David
If black boxes survive air crashes, why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
Carlin, George
How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground - seconds away - thousands of miles away.
Lindbergh, Charles A.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
Stern, Gil
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
Gates, Bill
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Kerr, Jean
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Chase, Alexander
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Adams, Douglas
Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star dust, the residue from our creation. Most are too busy to notice it, and it is stronger in some than others. It is strongest in those of us who fly and is responsible for an unconscious, subtle desire to slip into some wings and try for the elusive boundaries of our origin.
Eckland, K.O.
More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination.
Wright, Wilbur
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
Ash, Mary Kay
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
Porchia, Antonio