Flight Quotes - Page 37

• Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Flower, Cups, April

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.148, eBookIt.com

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• This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.

  Lorrie Moore

  Dream, Views, Kind

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.291, Faber & Faber

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• To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.

  Burt Rutan

  Thinking, Space, Order

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• I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sex, Men, Mind

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “Collected Short Stories”, p.318, Random House

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• The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Fighting, Two, Action

  "Mike Tyson Interview". Citizens Of Peace Magazine Interview, mag.citizensofhumanity.com. December 14, 2015.

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• The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

  Peter Greenaway

  Successful, Jumping, Games

  "Drowning By Numbers". Comedy, Drama, 1988.

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• In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Teacher, School, Atlanta

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• Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight
  The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
  Drives Night along with them from Heav'n,
  and strikes
  The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light

  Omar Khayyam

  Stars, Night, Light

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.119, University of Virginia Press

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• 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

  Space Flight, Flying, Body

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• The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drawing, Wish, Degrees

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

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• We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

  Yochai Benkler

  Fighting, Blow, September

  "Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.

  Alberto Tomba

  Mother, Doctors, Blood

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• I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies.

  Kyle Dunnigan

  Thinking, Animal, Giving

  "Kyle Dunnigan on the commercial futility of 'The Twelve Days Of Christmas'". Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. December 10, 2013.

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• All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Nature, Lying

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export”, p.652, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Rain, Doors

  Charles Dickens (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities (Falcon Classics) [The 50 Best Classic Books Ever - # 24]”, p.232, Charles Dickens

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• A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.

  Charles Dickens

  Grief, Rain, Air

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.38

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• Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.

  Charles Dickens

  Crush, Hammers, Pace

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.225

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• Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Suffering, Cupid

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.241

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• Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.

  Charles Dickens

  Wise, Character, Interesting

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• Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Writing, Poetry, Consistency

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.12, A&C Black

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• I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.

  Lionel Shriver

  Dog, Faithful, Stories

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.17, Counterpoint Press

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• In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible... remains in every way an up-to-date book. Our knowledge and use of the laws of nature that enable us to fly to the Moon also enable us to destroy our home planet with the atom bomb. Science itself does not address the question whether we should use the power at our disposal for good or for evil. The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral law of God.

  Wernher von Braun

  Bible, Christian, Book

  "Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts & Funny Sayings". Book by Bob Phillips, 1993.

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• Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night

  Emily Dickinson

  Good Night, Atheism, Graves

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1832, Delphi Classics

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• What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?

  Douglas Adams

  Airports, Two, Atheism

  The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul ch. 6 (1988)

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• Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

  Martial

  Joy, Aviation, Pluck

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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