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.
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Neil McElroy Quotes
... 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.
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Richard Bach Quotes
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.
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David Letterman Quotes
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
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Wendell Willkie Quotes
If black boxes survive air crashes, why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
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George Carlin Quotes
I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport.
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Amy Johnson Quotes
How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground - seconds away - thousands of miles away.
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Charles A. Lindbergh Quotes
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
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Gil Stern Quotes
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
I always thought that my airplane conveyed a silent sermon. To the earthbound observer, its silhouette was the shape of the cross on which Jesus was crucified.
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E.R. Trimble Quotes
Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly!
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Author Unknown Quotes
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.
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Bill Gates Quotes
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.
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Jean Kerr Quotes
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
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Alexander Chase Quotes
Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye.
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Terry Hanson Quotes
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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Douglas Adams Quotes
I never liked riding in helicopters because there's a fair probability that the bottom part will get going around as fast as the top part.
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John Wittenborn Quotes
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.
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K.O. Eckland Quotes
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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E.Y. Harburg Quotes
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be? It is the same the angels breathe.
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Mark Twain Quotes
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.
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Wilbur Wright Quotes
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes
The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche.
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Cesar Pelli Quotes
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
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Mary Kay Ash Quotes
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes