Flying Quotes

I will go down with my colours flying.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

But unlike Hillary Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

I love the training, learning the stunts, doing them. I love feeling that power - doing things you could never actually do in life - like flying and doing backflips in the air!

I've always been shocked that people that I'm actually flying with say, 'Oh, I feel safer on the plane with you.' I'm thinking, 'You must not watch the show because everybody around me gets killed.'

My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer

What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge.

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

The law of flying was not discovered by the contemplation of things staying on the ground.

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day

I love flying planes.

And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.

You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.

When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.

In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.

Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

We can’t make a portal—” “We’ve got a flying boat,” Carter offered.

Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.

Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

I like to be directed, but when I'm flying and I'm on fire, I don't want someone coming and getting in my way just because they feel like they need to.

I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because of many mishaps, I also avoided flying on ValuJet).

We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

My worst flight was flying between Macau and Osaka in 2007. The turbulence was so bad that the cabin crew were assuming their crash positions. I had more than a bit of a sweat on.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.

I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

What I feel like - 'cause I wanna be married, of course - I feel like the type of girl I would be with is a fellow superhero. So we get that 'already flying and now we're just flying together' thing.

We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

Well, pull up an ice block and lend an ear. Now you know how Santa uses these flying reindeer to pull his sleigh.

Planes are my foxhole. I'm always on my knees in them.

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

Maybe I'm just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people resent talent.