Flight Quotes - Page 4

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

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.

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

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

There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.

The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.

I still have my [flight] license and I can still pass a flight physical.

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

I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.

You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs.

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

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

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

Even if you're not enjoying the flight, it's futile to threaten to get out and walk.

I'm somewhat antagonistic towards these various projects that charge $250,000 per person for the ability to be weightless for 3 minutes after being brought up from earth. I think there are such better uses for that money that i seriously question the ethics of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on space flights for extremely wealthy people.