Flight Quotes - Page 15

• U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Japan, Middle East

  "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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• If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA to build one.

  Ross Perot

  Airplane, Today, Size

  "Ross Perot Speaks Out".

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• If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

  Wayne Rooney

  Sleep, Long, Engines

  "World Cup saga may end with tears on England's pillow" by Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.

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• I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.

  Rufus Sewell

  Holiday, Style, Littles

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

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• Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Ignorance, Knowledge

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.521

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• You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.

  Alan Shepard

  Real, Done, Busy

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• Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

  Alan Shepard

  Challenges, Pilots, Tests

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• I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

  Edith Sitwell

  Art, Women, Inspiration

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book edited by Abby Adams, November 1, 1989.

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• On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

  Lisa Snowdon

  Travel, Journey, Light

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• I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

  Harry Dean Stanton

  Good Night, Sweet, Angel

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• Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Believe, Circles

  "Inflated Fears". www.newyorker.com. September 14, 2009.

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• We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.

  Lewis Thomas

  Country, Men, Bird

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

  Abraham Verghese

  Opportunity, Airports, Doe

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• As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

  Mike Wallace

  Birthday, Eye, Long

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• Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

  J. C. Watts

  Numbers, Black, Alarms

  "What Color Is a Conservative?". Book by Chriss Winston and J. C. Watts, abcnews.go.com. October 22, 2002.

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• I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

  Arabella Weir

  Father, Long, Childhood

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• I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.

  Florence Welch

  Running, Creating, Personality

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• I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Beautiful, Kings, Simple

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• The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Kids, Doe

  "Kate Winslet: Your #1 Most Glam". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

  Chuck Yeager

  Want, Pilots, Aviation

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• There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

  Chuck Yeager

  Pilots, Aviation, Natural

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

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• On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Mean, Sleep, Voice

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• If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

  Caitlin Moran

  Running, Nice, Three

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.111, Random House

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• Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Life Is, Oblivion, Loses

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Everything and Nothing”, p.75, New Directions Publishing

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