Flying Quotes - Page 8

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

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 one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.

It's not always plain sailing... especially when you're flying!

Can someone explain to me why pilots feel they need to wake everyone to tell us that we are flying by a cloud that looks like a monkey.

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.

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

Think of one structural change in 11 years he made, other than being just doling out money in the annual Budget? And don't say the GST because Howard did that and it wasn't a structural change anyway, just a change in the tax system. This is a low flying person.

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.

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

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

Against the flying ball no valor avails.

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

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

I am convinced that UFOs exist because I've seen one.

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

I always was fascinated by space and always wanted to learn more about it and wanted to experience it first hand by flying into space. I don't know how it began or where it began. Maybe I was born with it. Maybe it's in my genes.