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Quotes About Flying

Pulling and Pushing against metals usually felt less like flying than it did like falling—only in the wrong direction.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Wayne was awakened quite rough-like, in a manner unbefitting his grand dreams, in which he was king of the dogs. Had a crown shaped like a bowl and everything. He blinked his eyes, feeling nice and warm, and got hit with a blast of air. Drowsy, he remembered he was flying in some kind of rusting airship with a fellow what had no face. And that was almost as good as that dog thing.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Your memories will be a flock of birds, silently flying in the sky. You will see them flying in and see them flying away. The memories will disappear and there will be nothing left.
~ Henning Mankell
Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works.
~ Alan Moore
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 did a lot of trapeze stuff when I did 'Pippin' and continued to do it afterward. Flying is so fun, and I was used to the harness idea, but these harnesses are like intense, full bodysuit things.
~ Ciara Renee
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
I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.
~ Uri Geller
For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging.
~ Sheila E.
In the past, I travelled with 'The Hero and the Crown' by Robin McKinley: I suffer from a fear of flying, and I felt a bit safer knowing I carried the book and characters with me.
~ Jesmyn Ward
I feel like my dream animal would be a mermaid that could fly and also live in the trees. She has a nest, almost like a bird. She feeds her babies like a bird, like, chews the food first and then feeds it to them through her mouth.
~ Banks
Most Saiyans are born with a talent for battle, but they still need to be taught the trick behind flying and stuff like that.
~ Akira Toriyama
Indeed the degree of psychic and somatic fulfilment offered by a life filled with 'beer, women and Spitfires' seemed to most who enjoyed it then, and to many who contemplate it now, to leave little wanting. The RAF was not a hunting fraternity, but a flying club, the best flying club in the world.
~ Stephen Bungay
And a whole lot of people who go flying with him and his pilots get a taste of real flying, not the airline passenger stuff, which is to flying what masturbation is to sex, merely a pale imitation of the real thing.
~ Stephen Coonts
I always had a phobia of heights, but since I've been flying more regularly I have no problem with it now. I just go to sleep.
~ Rob Cross
I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read.
~ Kesha
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
~ Harrison Ford
I have the advantage of being pretty small, so if I'm flying myself, I'm flying coach. To save the money. I just put in my headphones, and it's no big thing. I keep my head down, wear a hoodie or a hat - but sometimes not even that. I'm small. People miss me.
~ Anna Kendrick
A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It says, 'Look at the world around you; learn from the people in these pages, neither quite me nor quite you, how life is lived in so many different ways.'
~ Julia Glass
In the midst of escaping from Imperial warriors was definitely the wrong time to be mentally undressing flying women.
~ Michelle M. Pillow
What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.
~ Richard Bach
Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying.
~ Thomas Campion
I love directing; it felt right to me when I did 'Flying Lessons'. It's something I will do again. Really, you can always be working and developing. That's something that's kind of ever constant.
~ Derek Magyar
You just rode a flying camel through a sky full of ghosts," Seth said.
~ Brandon Mull