Flying Quotes

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Cannot, Dance, Learn

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

Learning, Yourself, Miss

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

Able, Goes, Fly

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
Barack Obama

Education, Long, May

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Different, Same

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

Learning, Yourself, Miss

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
George Orwell

Human, Trying, Write

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
Sylvia Plath

Time, Two, Same

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
Orson Welles

Means, Playing, Essential

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
Neil Armstrong

Joy, Special, Walking

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

Religion, Building, Initiative

I'm Ric Flair! The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun!
Ric Flair

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

Life, Dreams, Mean

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.
Tom Hiddleston

Girl, Learned, Dream

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

Age, Nothing, Through

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.
Liam Gallagher

Good, Past, Night

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
Albert Ellis

Angry, Speak, Meetings

Time is flying never to return.
Virgil

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

Experience, Brain, Thoughts

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

Thought, Moon, Actually

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.
Hugh Laurie

Morning, Through, Free

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
James Thurber

Great, End, Himself

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.
Shaun White

Game, Wind, Anybody

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

Time, Through, Far

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.
William Shatner

Hate, Guts, Flat

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
Hedy Lamarr

Travel, While, Seem

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

Fun, Worth, Might

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
Martin Scorsese

God, Idea, Loved

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

Beauty, Time, Hours

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.
Martin Scorsese

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