Flight Quotes - Page 14

• Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sweet, Sky, Tea

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 7 (1865)

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• The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

  Deepak Chopra

  Fighting, Survival Mode, Energy

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• I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.

  George Clooney

  Car, Deeds, Electric

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• I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

  Phil Collins

  Class, Age, Firsts

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• I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.

  Sloane Crosley

  Travel, Thinking, Phones

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• Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

  Sloane Crosley

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

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• The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Writing, Bird, World

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

  Amelia Earhart

  Women, Airplane, Sisterhood

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• It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

  Pope Francis

  Might, Joyful, Flight Attendant

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• And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

  Adolf Galland

  Pilots, Firsts, Lost

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• I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.

  Robin Gibb

  People, Rooms, Stairs

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

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• For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Dream, Stars

  Vincent van Gogh, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Van Gogh by Vincent”

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• If a hundred people want autographs, sometimes you have to say no because you've got to get up for a 4 A.M. flight or something. In that sense, it really pisses me off when people think you've become a diva. It's not becoming a diva, it's because of the situation, I think.

  Ellie Goulding

  Thinking, People, Want

  Interview with Jenn Selby, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. May 25, 2011.

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• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  Ian Hacking

  Future, Cutting, Done

  The Emergence of Probability Am Absent Family of Ideas (p. 3)

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• For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

  Chris Hadfield

  Years, Space Flight, Two

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• At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

  Michael Haneke

  Jumping, Giving, Film

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• His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Butterfly, Wings, Dust

  A Moveable Feast "Scott Fitzgerald" (1964)

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• The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Breaking Away, Anticipation

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.3

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• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Uplifting, Hope

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.8

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• I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life - it took two years to get!

  Jay Kay

  Moon, Years, Weather

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.

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• I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

  Jean Kerr

  Inspirational, Travel, Airplane

  JEAN KERR (1960). “THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE LINES”

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• I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and how kind she was during that difficult time.

  Gayle King

  Mother, Morning, America

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• I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Jealous, Moon, Men

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• The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

  Kylie Minogue

  Dad, Doctors, Two

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• What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

  Elon Musk

  Space Flight, Differences, Trying

  "U.S., China, Russia, Elon Musk: Entrepreneur's "insane" vision becomes reality". Interview with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. May 22, 2012.

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