Fly Quotes

I feel as though I have leapt off this massive cliff and I am still building my wings… Everyone just assumes I know how to fly, but I am pretty sure I am only falling gracefully and hoping to miss the ground.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!Patch grinned, I can fly.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

~ Herb Kelleher

The more people you help and the more value you create, the more your business will fly - and the quicker you'll win.

~ Robin S. Sharma

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

~ Twyla Tharp

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

~ Jesse Jackson

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

~ Maya Angelou

I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.

~ Janet Montgomery

I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.

~ John Glenn

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

~ Craig Ferguson

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

~ Douglas Adams

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.

~ Elon Musk

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

~ Muhammad Ali

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.

~ Richard Dawkins

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

~ Wilbur Wright

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

~ Will Smith

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

~ Valentina Tereshkova

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

~ Chris Hadfield

I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens.

~ Liu Yang

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

~ Stephen Hawking

Weightlessness was unbelievable. It's physical euphoria: Nothing about you has any weight. You don't realize that you are weighed down all the time by yourself, and your organs, and your head. Your arms weigh down your shoulders. In space simulation, you get to fly like Superman! You're hanging in the air! It's the coolest thing.

~ Mary Roach

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

~ Chris Hadfield

Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.

~ Burt Rutan

By 1973, we had a space station, the Skylab, and we had multiple probes going up to planets. So, all this wonderful stuff happened in 10 to 15 years. About that time, there should have been enormous initiatives to make it affordable for people to fly in space, not just a handful of trained NASA astronauts and Russian cosmonauts.

~ Burt Rutan

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.

~ Linda M. Godwin

The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.

~ Peter Diamandis

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

~ Clement Clarke Moore

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

~ Richard Branson

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

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

~ John Webster

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

~ Ivan Pavlov

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

~ Linus Pauling

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

~ Douglas Horton

'Longmire' is an incredibly hard shooting schedule because the locations are usually an hour away every morning, and I come home every weekend. I fly back to L.A. for about 26 hours a weekend, just to touch base back at home. It's a lot of work. It's four really intense months.

~ Katee Sackhoff

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

~ Ryszard Kapuściński

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.

~ John Travolta

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

~ Chris Carter

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

~ Richard Branson

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

~ Tom Brokaw

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

~ Virgil