Flight Quotes - Page 35

• I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not the inventor, then at least one of the first systematizers of an absurd critical practice that, as soon as it had peeked its beak out of the nest, flapping its new wet wings, took flight in the minds of the young, becoming a wild ox and sowing avant-garde literature with the mighty tomes of what might as well be called the abstract bear.

  Louis Aragon

  Responsibility, Practice, Wings

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• Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed.

  Simon Hoggart

  Optimistic, Mean, White

  "Ironing the Lawn in Salisbury, Rhodesia". www.theguardian.com. February 09, 1980.

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• A flight from London carrying the artist we all used to know as Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine after his name showed up on a terrorist no-fly list. I tell you, it's a real success story in the war on terror. You know, we finally got the guy that wrote "Peace Train.

  Cat Stevens

  Real, War, Cat

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• World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.

  Tanith Lee

  Horse, Night, Fire

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• The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress... and the opposite of the fight or flight response.

  Herbert Benson

  Stress, Fighting, Emotional

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• One knew, of course, that it was not the red cape any more than it was the boots, the tights, the trunks, or the trademark "S" that gave Superman the ability to fly. That ability derived from the effects of the rays of our yellow sun on Superman's alien anatomy, which had evolved under the red sun of Krypton. And yet you had only to tie a towel around your shoulders to feel the strange vibratory pulse of flight stirring in the red sun of your heart.

  Michael Chabon

  Heart, Krypton, Yellow

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.

  Alan Shepard

  Inspiration, Moon, Leaving

  "The thrill of space? Let's ask Alan Shepard" by Richard Louv, The San Diego Union-Tribune, p. A-2, August 02, 1995.

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• Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks through the vaulting, and leads us up into the free sky above, expanding to the very throne of Jehovah, and drawing us still upward to the infinite heights of glory.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Break Through, Sky, Drawing

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1892). “Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...”

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• I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the money-man's heartlessness, but not the man. I love the swallow's flight, and I love the swallow; the urchin's gleam of tenderness, and the urchin.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Cat, Men, Gleam

  "An Olaf Stapledon Reader" by by Olaf Stapledon, Syracuse University Press, New York, (pp. 266-272), 1997.

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• 'Tis time, my friend, 'tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Heart, Dust, Together

  "'Tis Time, My Friend". Poem by Alexander Pushkin, 1834.

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• Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

  Isak Dinesen

  Mind, Function, Talkers

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Winter's Tales”, p.132, Vintage

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• No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.

  Banesh Hoffmann

  Light, Bird, Discharge

  Banesh Hoffmann (1959). “The Strange Story of the Quantum: An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas Underlying Our Present Atomic Knowledge”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Thou Moon! Sun of the Night, Sister mystic of the Day; Look down, pause in thy flight! Calm me with thy aural ray, Enchanting souls to silver sleep. Look down from out thy airy keep, My fevered senses hypnotize; Shut out the World, whereto Mind flies-- Ambitious Mind, with travail sore; Its fibre rest, its calm restore.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Sleep, Moon, Night

  William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”

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• Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

  Kobo Abe

  Work, Men, Endure

  Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.158, Vintage

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• Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.

  Kobo Abe

  Punishment, Joy, Threat

  "No escape" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.

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• Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky; and in your enchanted land forever sleep.

  Jose Rizal

  Beautiful, Fall, Sleep

  "Mi último adiós". Poem by José Rizal. Stanza 5, 1897.

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• Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.

  Paul Ormerod

  Baseball, Player, Needs

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Air, Overcoming, Energy

  "Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst". Book by Otto Lilienthal; English edition: Birdflight As The Basis of Aviation (1911), 1889.

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• Artificial flight may be defined as that form of aviation in which a man flies at will in any direction by means of an apparatus attached to his body, the use of which requires personal skill. Artificial flight by a single individual is the proper beginning for all species of artificial flight, as the necessary conditions can most easily be fulfilled when man flies individually.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Mean, Men, Skills

  "The Romance of Aeronautics". Book by Charles Cyril Turner, Ch. VII Lilienthal and Pilcher, 1912.

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• Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the visionaries because they hoped for it merely, but those who by sheer force of intellect perceived the means by which it could be accomplished and directed their experiments along the right path. ... The name of Lilienthal is now among the most honoured, but curiously his own countrymen were the last to recognize the value of his work.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Mean, Names, Visionaries

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• The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.

  Nathalia Crane

  Summer, Fate, Night

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

  Bill Mollison

  Dirty, People, Earth

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

  Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

  Dream, Morning, Wind

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• Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Eye, Home, Ambition

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.74

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• A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight gave birth to a baby. As soon as he was born, the baby said, 'I had more leg room in the womb.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Baby, Legs, Rooms

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