Flying Quotes

Flying in space is a privilege, whether it's the first time or the fourth time.

~ Scott Kelly

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

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.

~ Monica Seles

If you look at Christmas movies, there are certain things in them that lend themselves to a 'Harold & Kumar' movie. In particular, the more out-of-this-world things like Santa Claus and flying reindeer.

~ Hayden Schlossberg

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

~ Neil Armstrong

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

~ Golda Meir

When I was a kid, I'd wake up extraordinarily early every morning and turn on the television, scanning for episodes of 'The Jetsons.' For some reason, I loved the notion of a future where there would be flying cars, supercomputers, and most of all, robot maids to take care of the chores.

~ Ben Shapiro

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

~ Douglas Adams

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

~ Douglas Adams

I love flying so much. I even like airplane food. No one bothers you and your phone never goes off and you can't have emails go through. It's undisturbed.

~ Margot Robbie

Being a consultant is like flying first-class. The food is terrific, the drinks are cold. But all you can do is walk up to the pilot and say, 'bank left.' If you're in management, you have the controls.

~ Greg Brenneman

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

~ Bill Maher

Time is flying never to return.

~ Virgil

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

~ Philip Stanhope

The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

~ Steve Fossett

I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing feeling.

~ Johnny Weir

Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?

~ Alex Berenson

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

~ Richard Dawkins

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

~ Keith Richards

During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.

~ Ken Jennings

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

~ Chuck Yeager

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

~ Virginia Postrel

They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats.

~ Chuck Feeney

Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied down in the airplane. And the IMAX camera has to be rock-steady through all this. We had to design special mounts on the left and right sides of the cabin and in the cockpit to hold the cameras.

~ Greg Macgillivray

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

~ Amelia Earhart

I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.

~ Maggie Cheung

Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.

~ Christian Louboutin

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.

~ Graham Brown

I like superheroes who are very human and underdog. That's why I relate to my character in 'A Flying Jatt': because he is a very normal person and very human. He was very unsure about his super powers; he didn't know how to use them. He is scared of heights, speed. Especially he is scared of his mom, but he has to listen to her.

~ Tiger Shroff

Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car.

~ Charles Lindbergh

We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy.

~ Elon Musk

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

~ Bill Gates

We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.

~ Paul Watson

Yeah, I'm the Brit who isn't Lewis Hamilton that woke up and realised he was good. I got that tag because I was young, flying around in jets and driving fast cars. I always took my driving seriously, but I suppose I enjoyed life... But I'm not a playboy.

~ Jenson Button

Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.

~ Eileen Myles

I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

~ Yves Rossy

But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.

~ Rick Perry