Flying Quotes
I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
The way I see life, it's like we're all flying on the Hindenburg, why fight over the window seats?
The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.
You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.
It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is
I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing feeling.
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
I definitely want to go and do some more research. My dad used to make me sit outside on the steps all night long, looking for a UFO flying by and I had to do that for years.
The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.
I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.
It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.
I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.
I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet
The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.
All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.
I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.
Can someone explain to me why pilots feel they need to wake everyone to tell us that we are flying by a cloud that looks like a monkey.
Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.
I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.
I remember flying with Air India to New York quite a few years ago now and I love Indian food, so the fact that I had a curry on board was fantastic.
We're all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that hard we're close to flying. But nothing is an eagle bar God.
Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is your awareness, your inborn openness and clarity.
If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.
Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.
These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.