Flying Quotes - Page 3

I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.

It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.

I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one making the statement in danger of excommunication by the scientific theocracy. Nevertheless, in recent years I have investigated the story of the unidentified flying object (UFO), and I am no longer able to dismiss the idea lightly.

I'm not bound to be in aviation at all. I'm here only because I love the sky and flying more than anything else on earth. Of course there's danger; but a certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life. I don't believe in taking foolish chances' but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

I get really nervous if pigeons are flying around before shows. I can't stand them after one once flew in through my bathroom window and went for me while I was having a wee. That was enough. I think pigeons target me.

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

There is nothing better in life than sliding down snow before flying through the air.

Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.

I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.

I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.

I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain.

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.