Flying Quotes

You ask me if you can eat dinner in your room, but you don’task me if you can torture Éibhear to take you flying?”Truly perplexed, Izzy asked softly, “Why would I ask you that?

~ G.a. Aiken

There was nothing so special about First Class, apart from the amount of uncalled for, almost disturbing, attention I got from the various six-feet tall heavily made up air hostesses, that I would come back for more given the steep price tag.

~ Vann Chow

That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Your life will fly by, so make sure you're the pilot.

~ Rob Liano

I feel that we are often taken out of our comfort zones, pushed and shoved out of our nests, because if not, we would never know what we could do with our wings, we would never see the horizon and the sun setting on it, we would never know that there's something far better beyond where we are at the moment. It can hurt, but then later you say thank you. I have been pushed and shoved and have fallen out and away, so very, very, many, many times! And others around me have not! But then, the others haven't seen what I have seen or felt what I have felt or been who I have been, they can't become what I have become. I am me.

~ C. Joybell C.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

~ Amelia Earhart

You have terminated me,” one of them said in a strange, flat voice. “But Iam one of many.”“Robots!” Iggy breathed, taking Total from Angel.“One of many, one of many, one of many,” the robot Eraser was saying. NowNudge saw the red light in its eyes, saw how they were fading and winking out.“Good!” spat the Gasman, kicking it hard. “Because we like to blow stuff up,blow stuff up, blow stuff up!

~ James Patterson

[His eyes are] Atlantic Ocean blue, just like he'd said. It's strange because of course I'd known that. But the difference between knowing it and seeing them in person is the difference between dreaming of flying and flight.

~ Nicola Yoon

She flew across the turbulent gust.Her eyes fixed, her wings strongShe flies and flies and flies along.To reach high, to open her wings to the breathing sun rise.

~ Debatrayee Banerjee

Finn said, “You feel the wind is a bully, beating you. But that is your seeing. That is your story, not the wind’s. To a bird who rides it, that wind is only a kind hand. Because the bird rides the wind’s power. Do you understand?” Clare, bitter, cold, and wind-battered, frowned stubbornly. “But a bird can fly. I can’t fly.” He turned to look at her, and his face was troubled. “If you cling to the safety of the rock, indeed you can’t. To fly, you open your arms and fall, heart first, trusting the wind to bear you up. That’s what the birds do.

~ Katherine Catmull

Easy does it, boys. I just need help standing, not flying.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

The best pilots fly more than the others, that's why they're the best.

~ Chuck Yaeger

Walking in the mountain with bare foot, Teasing the flowers with heavy soot, Touching the grasses, climbing the horses, swinging the girlsIt is joyful, jolly like the flying. Swimming in the rivers, tearing the clothes and burning the shoes Angel of the nature; counting the grasses, touching the flower, teasing the birds

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Where's Izzy? cried Alice. I'm right here! Izzy was heard, but there was no sight of her floating friend. Izzy's invisible! yelled Melanie.Invisible and flying! Colleen added nervously.

~ Katie Mattie

Still, some nights I grieved. I grieved as much at what I knew must be the fleeting nature of my present happiness as any loss, any past. We lived on some edge, if we ever lived on a rolling plain. Who knew what attack, what illness. That doubleness again. Like flying: the stillness and speed, serenity and danger.

~ Peter Heller

If you never dream of flying, then you'll never wake up with wings.

~ Natalie Kendall

I had a dream about you last night... I think flying saucer activity is pretty easy to explain; if I had one, I'd go joyriding too.

~ Marshall Ramsay

At last the magic caught, and she managed to vault clumsily onto it before it trundled into the night sky as gracefully as a duck with one wing missing.

~ Terry Pratchett

The plane was on descent. Reacher could feel it in his ears. And he could feel abrupt turns. The pilot was military, so he was using the rudder. Civilian pilots avoid using the rudder. Using the rudder makes the plane slew, like a car skids. Passengers don't like the feeling. So civilian pilots turn by juicing the engines on one side and backing off on the others. Then the plane comes around smoothly. But military pilots don't care about their passengers' comfort. It's not like they've bought tickets.

~ Lee Child

The guy you don't see will kill you.

~ Robin Olds

If you're in a fair fight, you didn't plan it properly.

~ Nick Lappos

When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten.

~ Robert E. Livingston

Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smite thee.

~ William Kershner

We were at sixty thousand feet. You’re thirty percent lighter upthere.

~ Dan Brown

Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some might claim that like the secret of flying is missing the ground, the secret to immortality is simply not dying.

~ Christina Engela

The last thing I remembered was joining the crew in a rendition of “Take to the Sky,” but the rest of the time blurred after I drank absinthe with the Captain.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel — past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment...

~ J.k. Rowling

I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending . . .

~ Carew Papritz

Climbing is as close as we can come to flying.

~ Margaret Young

As she gobbled up the miles, big ravines appeared before her, their starving mouths open for the swallow.

~ R.j. Lawrence

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

~ Freeman Dyson

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

~ Douglas Coupland

After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.

~ Peter Diamandis

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

~ Wilfred Owen

There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with the connection of the whole film, so when I choreograph, I think of the movement itself, the camera angles, the characters.

~ Donnie Yen

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

~ Joseph Conrad

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

~ Michael P. Anderson

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

~ Yuri Gagarin

If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.

~ Yi So-Yeon