Quotes About Flying

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, 'Bye!'

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

'Twilight' has ruined me. When this is all over, flying internationally is going to be very hard for me. It is just not worth it to buy a first-class ticket, because of the cost.

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

I had a good time doing ["The Congressman"], and I hope that Treat [Williams] and I plan to go flying in his [private] jet!

Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.

They say that most airline seats on planes today are meant for 170-pound passengers. The last time the average American weighed 170 pounds, the Wright Brothers were flying the plane.

Sometimes you do things for personal reasons. I made a very personal movie in We Are Marshall. I was afraid of flying, for a long time, and that's a movie about a plane crash.

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

This flying reptile lived in the Cretaceous period. It vanished 65 million years ago.

A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet's image of man.

Not surprisingly, many people have a fear of flying, but almost no one has a fear of driving. People rank tornadoes (which kill about fifty Americans a year) as a more common cause of death than asthma (which kills more than four thousand Americans a year), presumably because tornadoes make for better television.

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

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously. I'm good flying up to four hours, but anything past that, I want to kill myself.

I was staring out the classroom window and daydreaming of adventure when I spotted the flying saucer.

I'd programmed and dropped in a few back-to-back flicks starring Gamera, my favorite giant flying turtle.

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.

I called my pilot 2 weeks before I flew and asked him, "I don't want to get sick, what should I eat?" He said, "Peanut Butter." I said, "If I eat peanut butter then I won't get sick?" He said," no, but it tastes the same comin' up as it does goin' down.

Below us lay a valley white with snow. It was criss-crossed with lines, like a great cupped palm. But not even an expert seer would have had time to read the story of our future. Before we could get our bearings, my feet had quit the ground. Suddenly we were airborne and flying fast, carving a path between the rolling snow below and the glittering galaxies above.

I had heard stories about witches flying on a broom as a kid and I would always think, wow, they had their own private jet.

The more exciting, flying wrestlers are not going to be your 300-pound wrestlers.