Flying Quotes

Against the flying ball no valor avails.

When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.

Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.

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.

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.

A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back. As soon as we can see clearly with our big black eye, we're going to light up your world like the fourth of July.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

In the dark days of your life, you will need the wings of hope to continue flying.

The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.

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

A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.

The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change.

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

There are people like me who are not there yet, who are still the eagle flying high right now, still experiencing more in the world and growing as a result of that - and that is my journey.

Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds.

It pisses me off, people are idiots, but what are you going to do? The world is full of idiots. That's why we'll never have flying cars. People don't know how to drive

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)

If we don't take that time (to be romantic), then it's karate, then it's ballet, and then there's Christmas, and then my husband is flying off to tour around the world.

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

If you don't want an American flag flying at your school, why do you live in the USA?

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

I guess if you don't jump, you'll never know if you can fly.

The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

I’d like to have the flying car, I think that’d be really cool.

the stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many. i always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air.

We don't talk about planes flying. We talk about them crashing.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

Good flying never killed an enemy yet.

There's a plane flying over me and I'm looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed.

I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country.

I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously. I'm good flying up to four hours, but anything past that, I want to kill myself.

Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.

I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources.

Not every flying hero has a cape.

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

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.