Flying Quotes:

There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.

- A. K. Antony

topic: Flying, India, Borders

I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.

- Adam Levine

topic: Hate, Flying, I Hate

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

- Alan Alda

topic: Flying, Magic, Physics

Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.

- Alan Bean

topic: Flying, Needs, Answers

What we want is clothing we think we can fly in. That's why I opened the show with flying dresses.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Thinking, Flying, Dresses

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

- Albert Ellis

topic: Flying, Speak, Analysts

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Bird, Flying, Spiritual Wisdom, Bird Flying

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

topic: Thinking, Bird, Flying

The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

topic: Butterfly, Wings, Flying, Flying Saucers

There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.

- Alex James

topic: Flying, Machines, Thrill

I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.

- Alexander Graham Bell

topic: Flying, Feelings, Machines, Flying Machines, Propeller

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Wind, Wings, Flying

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

- Alexander Woollcott

source: Address in Reply to His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech, hansard.millbanksystems.com. November 01, 1950.

topic: Flying, Calm, Ability

I'm afraid of flying.

- Allison Janney

topic: Flying

A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

- Alton Brown

topic: Home, Flying, Recipes

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.

- Amelia Earhart

topic: Stars, Night, Flying, Lure

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

- Amelia Earhart

topic: Travel, Fun, Flying, Pilots And Flying, Sailing And Love

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.

- Amy Johnson

source: Amy Johnson (1939). “Sky Roads of the World”

topic: Mean, Thinking, Flying

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

- Andrea Arnold

topic: Adversity, Flying, Fur, Calmer

I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts

- Andrea Gibson

topic: Heaven, Flying, This Life

The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

- Andrew Vachss

topic: Flying, Slugs, Bullets

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

- Andrew Wyeth

topic: Joy, Flying, Firsts

My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Airplane, Ideas, Flying, Sociability

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Adventure, Discovery, Flying

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

- Annie Lennox

topic: Flying, Leaving, Rubbish, Fear Of Public Speaking, Fear Of The Future

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Travel, Airplane, Flying, Helicopters, Airplanes And Flying

I'm influenced by the music of the '60s. It's a mishmash of everything. To me, psychedelic can be all the way to a DJ. House music can be very psychedelic. Flying Lotus is very psychedelic. Even though it's urban and technological, it's also mind-expanding, anything-can-go mishmash.

- Anton Newcombe

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: House, Flying, Mind, House Music

Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Flying, Snowflake, Resolution

I would not have been able to accomplish a lot of what I did professionally had I not learned to fly myself and owned an airplane. For example, I was able to fly to an exhibition for the day and be back home in time for dinner. I never would have been able to do that flying commercially.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Home, Airplane, Flying

I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I unexpectedly took to the air, and the first thing I knew, I was flying.

- Arthur P. Warner

topic: Airplane, Wind, Flying

'Twilight' has ruined me. When this is all over, flying internationally is going to be very hard for me. It is just not worth it to buy a first-class ticket, because of the cost.

- Ashley Greene

topic: Twilight, Class, Flying, First Class, Not Worth It

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

- Barry Goldwater

topic: Men, Flying, Pilots

You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

- Beano Cook

topic: Heart, Two, Flying, Heart Transplant

I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.

- Ben Harper

topic: Fall, Flying, Dying, Flying High

The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.

- Bernard of Clairvaux

topic: Blow, Roots, Flying, Spiteful, Roots And Branches

all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

- Beryl Markham

topic: Flying, Boards, Instruments

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

- Bessie Coleman

topic: School, Flying, Black, Aviator

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

- Beth Ditto

topic: Life Is Short, Flying, Doe, Phobia, Fear Of Flying

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously. I'm good flying up to four hours, but anything past that, I want to kill myself.

- Bill Burr

topic: Past, Flying, Four

The biggest problem is getting beyond the "you can't" syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you're on your way to flying. Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

- Bill Drayton

topic: Skills, Creative, Flying

Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.

- Bill Walsh

topic: Nfl, Flying, Pants

The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself.

- Billy Bishop

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fighting, Flying, Important, Air Force, Fighter Pilot

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

- Billy Bob Thornton

topic: Airplane, Flying, Fear Of Flying

Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.

- Bob Hoover

topic: Flying, Stories, Done

I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere.

- Bobbie Ann Mason

topic: Distance, Ideas, Flying, Blackbirds, Diesel Fuel

It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself

- Bobby Darin

topic: Space, Anxiety, Flying

A number of revelators and UFO contactees have since mentioned to me that just before the appearance of an entity they were aware of a strange buzzing sound. Witnesses of unexplained aerial phenomenon have also referred to a buzzing or rushing sound shortly before the 'flying saucer' appeared over them. I am also reminded that great deal of poltergeist activity produces a preparatory 'signal' of a buzzing, rasping, or winding noise.

- Brad Steiger

topic: Rushing, Numbers, Flying, Flying Saucers, Unexplained

I was vanquished by a deer!' A giant magical flying deer with fangs,' Seth said, parroting a description Gavin had shared earlier. That sounds a little better,' Warren conceded. 'Seth is in charge of my tombstone.

- Brandon Mull

topic: Tombstone, Flying, Sound, Conceded

One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.

- Brandon Routh

source: Susane Colasanti (2013). “So Much Closer”, p.222, Scholastic UK

topic: Flying, Important, Green

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

- Brendan Rodgers

topic: Flying, Sailing

If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)

- Brené Brown

topic: Flying, Storm, Stories, Wrong Person

As our heart soars, we fly with it! Let love take you places!

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Heart, Flying, Soar

The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.

- Burt Rutan

topic: Flying, Criticism, Interest

See driving is like stabbing someone, it's very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it's more distant.

- Bushwick Bill

source: "Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop". Book by Ben Westhoff, 2011.

topic: Flying, Shooting, Driving

Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Airplane, Flying, Pilots, Air Power

But unlike Hillary Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

- Carly Fiorina

topic: Accomplishment, Flying, Clinton

I'm laid back, I take my time, get the job done. Lebron is high flying, dunking, passing the ball well. He's getting the job done, too. But we're different.

- Carmelo Anthony

topic: Basketball, Jobs, Flying, Dunking, Get The Job Done

I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

- Carol Rifka Brunt

source: Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.350, Dial Press

topic: Work Out, Flying, Secret

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.

- Carolina Herrera

topic: Heaven, Flying, Skins, Milk And Honey

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

- Cathy Rigby

topic: Joy, Flying, Want, Hoot

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.

- Cecil Day-Lewis

topic: Space, Giving, Flying, Space Time

I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.

- Channing Tatum

topic: Dream, Jumping, Flying, Jumping Off

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

- Charles Ives

topic: Song, Rights, Flying, Ordinary Citizens

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

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Space, Flying, Yardsticks, Great Aviation, Torn Apart

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.

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Believe, Sky, Flying, Quality Of Life

Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Sight, Giving, Flying, Flying High

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

- Charles Simonyi

topic: Space, Flying, Body, Good Science, Space Flight

I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

- Chris Evert

topic: People, Flying, Speech, Fear Of Flying

Unlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is an earthbound pursuit...

- Chris Rock

topic: Wall, Flying, Pursuit

I danced out my pain...It felt like praying, like flying.

- Christie Watson

topic: Pain, Flying, Praying

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.

- Chuck Yeager

topic: Military, Flying, Use

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

- Chuck Yeager

source: Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

topic: Airplane, Flying, Dying, Cockpit, Pilots And Flying

There is no such thing as a natural born pilot. Whatever my aptitudes or talents, becoming a proficient pilot was hard work, really a lifetime's learning experience. For the best pilots, flying is an obsession, the one thing in life they must do continually. The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best. Experience is everything. The eagerness to learn how and why every piece of equipment works is everything. And luck is everything, too.

- Chuck Yeager

topic: Hard Work, Flying, Luck, Best Experiences

Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.

- Cinda Williams Chima

topic: Falling In Love, Fall, Flying, Falling Off, Falling Off A Cliff

I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.

- Cindy Gallop

topic: Fun, Careers, Flying

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

- Coco Chanel

source: "This New Chanel Mini Documentary Will Make You Want to Carpe Diem" by Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. August 19, 2016.

topic: Fear, Wings, Flying, Gender Equality

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

- Cornelia Fort

topic: Country, Grateful, Flying

The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.

- Cory Lidle

topic: Airplane, Flying, Safe

For people who cannot get to church for various reasons, this is a great option. But it will always be a poor substitute for joining the faith community in person. Surely, the church experience is about more than a message. We are always better off together than flying solo. Godcasting is a supplement, not a substitute for weekly worship.

- Craig Detweiler

topic: People, Community, Flying, Supplements, Faith Community

Boeing is working on an invisible fighter jet so nobody can see who's flying it. Didn't George Bush fly this in the National Guard, I believe?

- Craig Kilborn

topic: Believe, Flying, Boeing, National Guard, Fighter Jets

It wasn't that I didn't trust Mark's flying, it was just that, okay, I didn't trust Mark's flying.

- D. J. MacHale

topic: Flying, Mark, Okay

Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.

- Daniela Pestova

topic: Air, Flying, Skins, Turbulence

I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking at the wheel of the airplane as we rolled down the runway, because I wanted to remember the exact moment that I first went flying... the other thing growing up is that I was always interested in science.

- David M. Brown

source: "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

topic: Growing Up, Airplane, Flying, Close Family, Space Exploration

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

- David Morse

source: Source: www.boxinginsider.com

topic: Hands, Flying, Way, Coasters

Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.

- David Neeleman

topic: People, Wife, Flying

Now, let's see how you fare against the Flying Dutchman and her vile captain, Davy Jones!

- Davy Jones

topic: Flying, Captains

Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.

- Dean Potter

topic: Moving, Long, Flying, Granite

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

- Deb Caletti

topic: Flying, Trying, Kind

Global warming causes volatility. I feel it when I'm flying.

- Debbie Stabenow

topic: Flying, Causes, Energy, Volatility

Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.

- Debbie Stabenow

topic: Flying, Storm, Tornadoes, Volatility

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

- Dee Dee Myers

topic: Airplane, Flying, Twins, Borrowed

I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go.

- Denzel Washington

topic: Worry, Flying, Captains

I love directing; it felt right to me when I did 'Flying Lessons'. It's something I will do again. Really, you can always be working and developing. That's something that's kind of ever constant.

- Derek Magyar

topic: Flying, Lessons, Kind

It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium

- Dick Trickle

topic: Car, Flying, Fighter, Gymnasiums, Funny Racing

I was flying back from Lubbock and I saw Jesus on the plane, or maybe it was Elvis. You know, they kind of look the same.

- Don Henley

topic: Jesus, Flying, Looks

There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with the connection of the whole film, so when I choreograph, I think of the movement itself, the camera angles, the characters.

- Donnie Yen

topic: Character, Thinking, Flying, Camera Angles

Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath

- Dorothea Lasky

topic: Flying, Currents, Force, Plath, Electrical

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.

- Douglas Bader

source: Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.19, Pen and Sword

topic: Flying, Enemy, Cohesion, Dunkirk

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Dream, Mean, Flying

Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Dream, Long, Flying

just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Flying, Attention, Way

And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.

- Duane G. Carey

topic: Powerful, Air, Flying, Air Force

For a time, the Flying Tigers provided the only victories against the Japanese anywhere in the Far East... This handful of men had shown that the Japanese were not invincible.

- Duane P. Schultz

topic: War, Men, Flying

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

- Dustin Diamond

topic: People, Car, Flying, Flying Cars

Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought

- Edmund Spenser

topic: Wings, Poetry, Flying

Days and moments quickly flying, Blend the living with the dead; Soon will you and I be lying Each within our narrow bed.

- Edward Caswall

source: Edward Caswall (1858). “The Masque of Mary and Other Poems”, p.220

topic: Lying, Flying, Bed

I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?

- Edward Norton

topic: Heartbroken, Loss, Flying, Wheat Fields

Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.

- Edwin Percy Whipple

topic: Bridges, Flying, Enemy

Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.

- Eileen Collins

topic: Country, People, Flying

My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

- Eli Roth

topic: Sharks, Flying, Trying

Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.

- Elinor Glyn

topic: Cutting, Flying, Three

This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.

- Elizabeth Bowen

topic: Freedom, Flying, Gold

I just loved the feeling of flying. I could jump six feet bareback and it was the closest thing to being Pegasus and flying next to God. It's the most liberating freedom-making feeling in the world.

- Elizabeth Taylor

topic: Feet, Flying, Feelings, Pegasus

One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.

- Elizabeth Wein

topic: Dark, Sky, Flying

Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.

- Ella Fitzgerald

topic: Running, Song, Flying

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Reality, Ideas, Flying

There's a plane flying over me and I'm looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed.

- Ellen MacArthur

topic: Weather, Worry, Flying

The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.

- Emile de Girardin

topic: Army, Flying, Victory, Power Of Words

Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Morning, Angel, Flying, Early Morning

Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell.

- Ernest K. Gann

topic: Flying, Pilots, Victim, Hypnotic, Embellishment

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

- Ernest K. Gann

topic: Flying, Relaxed

. . . It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought from my brain with the swipe of a paw. I sit there, flying on, and continue to stare, as though mesmerised, at the Cauldron on my left.

- Ernst Udet

topic: Blood, Flying, Brain, Cauldrons

My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO.' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only thing that she felt strongly about was that to say a ship was unsinkable was flying in the face of God. Those were her words.

- Eva Hart

topic: Mother, Flying, Ships

When I'm running fast, I don't feel anything, it's effortless, it's like my feet don't even touch the ground, it's like I'm flying.

- Evelyn Ashford

topic: Running, Feet, Flying, Running Fast

Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed.

- Eydie Gorme

topic: Airports, Flying, Changed

There's so much world to see, what's stopping you from flying free?

- Eyedea

topic: Flying, Stopping, World, Flying Free

Anyone can fly. All you need is somewhere to go that you can't get to any other way. The next thing you know, you're flying among the stars.

- Faith Ringgold

topic: Stars, Flying, Needs

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

- Felix Baumgartner

topic: Brother, Flying, Pioneers, Wright Brothers

I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.

- Felix Baumgartner

topic: Dream, Flying, Way

Unidentified flying objects are a very serious subject which we must study fully. We appeal to all viewers to send us details of strange flying craft seen over territories of the Soviet Union. This is a serious challenge to science and we need the help of all Soviet citizens.

- Felix Ziegel

topic: Flying, Challenges, Citizens, Serious Subjects

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

- Florence Henderson

topic: Love Is, Flying, Done, Live Television, Live Tv

It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars.

- Fran Lebowitz

topic: Baby, Smoking, Flying

I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying.

- Francis Gary Powers

topic: Smart, Airplane, Flying

It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.

- Francisco Lopez

topic: Butterfly, Golf, Flying

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.

- Frank B. Salisbury

topic: Years, Ideas, Flying, Theocracy, Sirius

Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.

- Frank Miller

topic: Flying, Next, Metropolis

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Motivation, Flying, Aviation, Flying High

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Dancing, Dancer, Flying, Flyers

Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

- Gail Godwin

topic: Success, Flying, Comfort

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

- Galway Kinnell

topic: Flying, Poetry Is, Prose

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

- Gene Cernan

topic: Years, Flying, Unexpected

We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do.

- Gene Cernan

topic: Space, Flying, Sitting Down, Flying Machines

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

- George Jean Nathan

topic: Air, Flying, Flags

There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible balloon or flying machine, or both, for commercial transportation or as weapons of war.

- George W. Melville

topic: War, Successful, Flying, Flying Machines

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

- Gerard Arpey

topic: Thinking, Flying, Popularity

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

topic: Flying, World, Royal, Happy Things

Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your life. Everybody has.

- Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

topic: Waiting, Cynical, Flying

While I was making my solo films, RKO was busily trying to get me and Fred Astaire back together. The studio wanted to capitalize on the success of 'Flying Down to Rio' and realized that the pairing of Rogers and Astaire had moneymaking potential.

- Ginger Rogers

topic: Flying, Together, Trying, Rio

There's an image of Rapunzel free, flying in the air, as a sunburst, which says so much. This is a girl who has to get out and bless the world.

- Glen Keane

topic: Girl, Air, Flying, Rapunzel

My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.

- Golda Meir

topic: Airplane, Flying, Age, Stop Time, Take It Easy

Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.

- Gordon Baxter

topic: Flying, Aviation, Instruments

When asked by someone how much money flying takes: Why, all of it!

- Gordon Baxter

topic: Flying, Aviation

While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.

- Gordon Cooper

topic: Flying, Pilots, Germany, Flying Saucers

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.

- Gordon Cooper

topic: Europe, Two, Flying, Flying Saucers

Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you,

- Graham Hawkes

topic: Air, Flying, Underwater

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

- Greg Egan

topic: Flying, Kind, Drag

Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.

- Guy Murchie

topic: Flying, Exhilaration, Strange

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

- Harold Wilson

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Flying, Chance, Should

The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from parcel delivery, taking photographs or conducting schools of flying.

- Harriet Quimby

topic: School, Flying, Occupation, Parcel

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

- Harry Chapin

topic: Dream, Flying, Radio, Flying High

I hate flying, taking my clothes off, and going through the whole security.

- Harry Dean Stanton

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Hate, Clothes, Flying

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

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Flying, Earth, Given, Flying Saucers, Sirius

I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.

- Helen Reddy

topic: Flying, Pieces, Crap, Fear Of Flying

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Men, Sky, Flying, Inspirational Environmental, Environmentalist

Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

- Henry James

topic: Art, Exercise, Flying

That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if we didn't have to return to airports.

- Henry Mintzberg

topic: Fun, Airports, Flying

Today, we cannot produce machines that fly the same as UFOs do. They are flying by means of artificial fields of Gravity. This would explain the sudden changes of directions. This hypothesis would also explain the piling-up of these discs into a cylindrical or cigar-shaped mothership upon leaving the Earth.

- Hermann Oberth

topic: Mean, Flying, Leaving, Sudden Change

It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system.There is no doubt in my mind that these objects are interplanetary craft of some sort. I and my colleagues are confident that they do not originate in our solar system.

- Hermann Oberth

topic: Real, Space, Flying

I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!

- Hilary Duff

topic: Flying, Trying, Mouths

Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.

- Howard Hughes

topic: Flying, Mind, Would Be, Losing My Mind

I love flying planes.

- Hunter Hayes

topic: Flying, Planes

Insecurity prevents young artists from 'flying' and older artists from being 'down to earth.' Young artists should work on their confidence and the older ones on their humility.

- Igor Babailov

topic: Humility, Artist, Flying, Young Artists

You cannot get one nickel for commercial flying.

- Inglis M. Uppercu

topic: Flying, Nickels

Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.

- Isaac McLellan

source: Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.23

topic: Time, Flying, Littles

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.

- Isabella Beeton

source: Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.21, Oxford University Press

topic: Party, Giving, Flying

What binds us to space-time is our rest mass, which prevents us from flying at the speed of light, when time stops and space loses meaning. In a world of light there are neither points nor moments of time; beings woven from light would live "nowhere" and "nowhen"; only poetry and mathematics are capable of speaking meaningfully about such things.

- IU?. I. Manin

topic: Space, Light, Flying, Speed Of Light

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks...

- J. Edgar Hoover

topic: Flying, Investigation, Ufo

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.

- Jacqueline Cochran

source: Jacqueline Cochran, Maryann Bucknum Brinley, Maryann Busknum (1988). “Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography”, Bantam

topic: Adventure, Hands, Flying, Spirit Of Adventure

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.

- Jacques Charles

topic: Airplane, Perfect, Flying, Calumny Is, Exhilaration

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

- Jacques Lacan

topic: Writing, Wind, Flying, Blank Check

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

- Jane Horrocks

topic: People, Flying, Locks

I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system.

- Janelle Monae

topic: Oil, Flying, Boost, Immune System

A duck tastes the same whether they're shot sitting or flying.

- Jase Robertson

topic: Ducks, Flying, Sitting

Whether or not I tour forever, I'm not sure. I would love to spend more time living in harmony with nature rather than flying all over the world and contributing to global warming, you know what I mean?

- Jason Mraz

topic: Mean, Forever, Flying, Contributing

Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder

- Jean Toomer

source: Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.10, UNC Press Books

topic: Sweet, Rain, Flying, Dripping

The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.

- Jeff Miller

topic: Country, Years, Flying, American Flag, Standing Tall

I imagine horses in the engine, their manes flying, their breaths steaming, their nostrils flaring as they gallop.

- Jenny Downham

topic: Horse, Flying, Imagine, Engines

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

- Jeri Ryan

topic: Space, Flying, Hanging Out

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

- Jerry Doyle

source: Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.

topic: Beach, School, Flying, Daytona

I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all.

- Jerry Doyle

topic: Wall, Growing Up, Flying, Fast Paced, Prerequisites

Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.

- Jerry Spinelli

topic: Song, Heart, Flying

We're flying free like birds in the sky, because we're ALIVE.

- Jessie J

topic: Sky, Bird, Flying, Flying Free

Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.

- Jim Courier

topic: Tennis, Flying, Horizon, New Horizons

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

- Jim Lovell

topic: Flying, Challenges, Aviation, Spacecraft, Carrier

Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939

- Jimmy Doolittle

topic: Flying, Germany, May, Flying Saucers

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.

- Joe Rogan

topic: Life, Talking, Flying

And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw.

- Joe Shuster

topic: Jumping, Giving, Flying

The world is becoming more affluent. We are generating more and more money - so more spending will go on. In the west, we're opening our purses and moths are flying out - but we've got to remember that, in other markets, this is not an issue.

- Joe Staton

topic: Business, Issues, Flying, Affluent

Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Forgiveness, Moving, Flying, Life Philosophy, Aspects Of Life

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

- John Diefenbaker

topic: Flying, Tails