Quotes with flight

  • You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you're grateful.
  • Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
  • I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • E. B. White The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • John Steinbeck A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Ben Affleck Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure that a velociraptor isn't around the corner and that you do as much as you possibly can to survive. Because Hollywood has a lot in common with 'Jurassic Park' and its primeval-dinosaur universe.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bruno Tonioli Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Burt Rutan By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Louis Aragon Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Burt Rutan For the industry we're starting now, for suborbital flight, there is no destination, so the spacecraft you go up in has to be large and spacious. That's why SpaceShipTwo is much bigger than SpaceShipOne: It needs to be because you want those six people to be floating around and enjoying themselves.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Seneca I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Burt Rutan I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Bill Nye I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Mental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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