Quotes on Flying

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Author: Douglas Adams

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Author: Douglas Adams

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

Author: Michael Anderson

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

Author: Neil Armstrong

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

Author: Gerard Arpey

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

Author: Mary Ash

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

Author: Aaron Carter

In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles.

Author: Henri Coanda

The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur.

Author: John Corry

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

Author: Roald Dahl

When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.

Author: Donald Douglas

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!

Author: Hilary Duff

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

Author: Amelia Earhart

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.

Author: Albert Ellis

You've got to keep things flying.

Author: Keith Emerson

The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

Author: Steve Fossett

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

Author: Yuri Gagarin

I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.

Author: Adolf Galland

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.

Author: Mel Gibson

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.

Author: Linda Godwin

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

Author: William Golding

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

Author: Eydie Gorme

I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.

Author: Mark Hamill

I'm afraid of flying.

Author: Allison Janney

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Author: Lord Kelvin

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

Author: Jacques Lacan

I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt.

Author: Ted Lindsay

And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.

Author: Reba McEntire

It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.

Author: Vince McMahon

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.

Author: David Morse

The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.

Author: Michael O'Donoghue

All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.

Author: Ed O'Neill

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Author: George Orwell

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

Author: Robert Pattinson

I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.

Author: Amanda Peet

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.

Author: Daniela Pestova

I think there's a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth.

Author: Regis Philbin

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

Author: Michael Richards

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

Author: Jeri Ryan

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

Author: Marilyn Savant

I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen.

Author: Wally Schirra

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

Author: Martin Scorsese

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

Author: W. Stevens

Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job done.

Author: Stuart Symington

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

Author: Billy Thornton

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

Author: Skeet Ulrich

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

Author: Orson Welles

You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

Author: Link Wray

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Author: Orville Wright