Flight Quotes

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.

Christianity doesn't offer a smooth flight; it provides a safe landing. The promise of Jesus is not one of happiness, He promises righteousness.

Why does every flight attendant seem like they are going through a divorce?

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

I very often used to get backaches due to the fact that I was wrong. Whenever you are wrong you have to fight or [take] flight. When [I] make the decision, the backache goes away.

A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight gave birth to a baby. As soon as he was born, the baby said, 'I had more leg room in the womb.'

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

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

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

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

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

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

Every flight begins with a fall.

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.

Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.

If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.

The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.

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

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.

Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight.

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one

What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.

Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like an airplane.

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more.

Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my 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.

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

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

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

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

The flight was extremely normal . . . for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.