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Flying is simple. Hitting the ground is hard
I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.
Sometimes life doesn't allow us to be free to fly wherever we'd like.
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.
You used to be fly, but you crashed your plane.
Damned planes. Too confining, too noisy - too fucking high in the air.
Flying is the best possible thing for women.
Confinement. This morning the plane was over the Malay peninsula,
It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.
It's not always plain sailing , especially when you're flying
You've never lived till you've flown!
Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.
When you've reached a certain point in your life, there are people out there waiting to see you fall. but rather than let gravity take you down, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands and fly.
When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.
Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.
Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .
The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply unforgettable.
I attempt from love's sickness to fly.
The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change.
Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
No fickleness in flight like that of wind or women's fancy,
I don't like flying. I'm a bit scared of it and don't enjoy the whole experience.
Flying does not rely so much on strength, as on physical and mental co-ordination.
You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.
The only ones who fly are the one who dare to fly.
Flying is my favorite time in the world. When I'm sitting in a plane, it's amazing because it's quiet and there's no cell phones and no one to talk to you. It's my favorite time. I read all my scripts. I catch up on my movies. I sleep. It's the best. There's no one telling you, "Time to go!"
Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.
More than anything else, the sensation [of flying] is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost - if you can conceive of such a combination.
Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting physics; really interesting muscle physiology; really interesting neural computations.
Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.
Essentially Flight is just an adventure of multiple realities.
By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.
In flight ... entire days can be wound back or skipped over ... as we exist merely in a world of vapor. Adventures are both beginning and coming to a close up here as people from opposite ends of experience paradoxically move in one direction.
I prefer not to fly, but sometimes it's unavoidable.
One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.
I hate flying. I'm not a big fan of flying at all so everywhere I go I go by tour bus. If I have to fly I will but I'm not a big fan of it.
You've got to keep things flying.
We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.
Choose. Fly or die.
With the wings of imagination, don't be afraid to fly.
In order to fly, you have to be free.
travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.
Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.
Let's begin with Level Flight. . . .
Flying High with the Angels
I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.
I love traveling, but I hate planes.
Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.
The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream of attempting. But when I saw how easily the man flyers manipulated their machines I said I could fly.
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.
To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.
How could anyone live without flying?
Never stop flying the airplane.
Dreams of flying have haunted the collective imagination since time immemorial.
The simple bird has the freedom to fly anywhere, and yet here we stay
I hate flying. I don't like planes. I get really anxious.
To fly or not to fly, that's the question.
Walking gets too boring when you learn how to fly.
I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.
I guess when we're young, we all have that fascination with flying.
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.
Film and calculus, both pornographies of flight.
I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.
Fly enough, and you learn to go brain-dead when you have to. It's sort of like time travel. One minute you're bending to unlace your shoes,and the next thing you know you're paying fourteen dollars for a fruit cup, wondering, How did I get here?
When everything seems to be going wrong with you, you must remember the airplane takes off against the wind
I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.
Spread your love and fly.
If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.
Let me fly with you.Fly-- Sylvia Plath
[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.
It feels wonderful when you fly with hopes and dreams.
There are only two words with four letters which can make us fly: Wing and Love.
We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
I think, just the exhilaration of flying. The freedom of the air. The freedom of flight. And you completely remove yourself from the world. And you can voluntarily remove yourself from all those ... everything that's near and dear to you. And you voluntarily return.
You can pack a bag and take a plane somewhere, anywhere, and when you get there and open the bag - lying right on top will be whatever you're running away from. The very first thing you'll have to unpack ...
True freedom lies within how and if we choose to fly,
Perhaps I need to focus on flying,
In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it
In the early days it was fun to fly. You could soar over rooftops and trees, or drop down to meet a passing train and wave at the engineer. The whole sky belonged to you. now there are so many regulations. The sky is crowded. All the fun is gone.
Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder where they live: they are at home in the sky, in flight. Flight is their way of being in the world.
I decided that travel was flight and pursuit in equal parts,
Flying was no cure for want of sleep. The brain wanted time to recycle: when it became all one long, uninterrupted day, the ability to keep going and to keep thinking was no warrant it was healty even for Superman.-Superman
Some people don't care if they live or they die.
Some people want to know what it feels like to fly.
They gather their courage and they give it a try
And fall under the wheels of time going by.
Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.
I'm always jumping on a plane somewhere. With my lifestyle, I'm all over the place.
You can't fly by staring at the sky. You have to take a risk to grow wings of imagination and fly.
I've spent half my life on planes.
The hardest lesson I had learnt upon my travels was patience. There are times when every muscle, every nerve, screams for movement, when every instinct urges escape. But the instinct to fly is not always a sound one. There are occasions when only stillness can save you.
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
I'm not a great flyer. It's ironic, since I'm in showbiz and have to fly at least twice a week. I try to sleep and blot it out.
All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.
Flight, its upper and lower wings spread wide, its toy-car wheels resting lightly on the grass, its long tail tapering behind. The weather was fine with gentle breezes, and the little aircraft trembled in the wind,
How would it ever occur to a sane man that he could fly?
Stretch your mind and fly.
There's a plane to everywhere leaving shortly
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.