Flight Quotes - Page 3

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

When you walk up five flights of stairs at four in the morning, there's definitely a hooker involved.

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.

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.

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

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.

I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.

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

The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.

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

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

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

Every flight begins with a fall.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.