Quotes About Altitude

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

Certain films should only be watched at 40,000 feet. Like, certain comedies and certain, uh, emotionally charged movies.

After every few steps, we huddle over our ice axes mouths agape, struggling for sufficient breath to keep our muscles going.... at a height of 8800 metres, we can no longer keep on our feet while we rest. We crumple to our knees, clutching our axes.... Every ten or fifteen steps we collapse into the snow to rest, then crawl on again.

But totally unexpected at the high altitude at which the bombers flew was a 140-mile-per-hour wind. They were blown with it over the target and their ground speed was therefore nearly 450 mph, impossible for the bombardiers.

high altitude coupled with rigorous exercise can raise lithium levels. I became completely disoriented and totally incapable of navigating my way down the mountain.

Your attitude will ultimately determine and define your altitude of life

The difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude." These words, from the book The Power of Unconditional Love by Ken Keys, Jr., form the overarching sentiment for everything I believe about raising a child with autism, and they come from a man who lived that difference every day.

I never knew there were this many stars." "I can't see them," he told me. "I just see you." "That's one of your cheesier lines," I told him. "It's the altitude," he told me. "I don't have enough oxygen in my brain." "I see.

I'm pretty tall, you know.

O desfiladeiro de Shibar tem mais de três mil metros de altitude, e já estávamos perto do limite das neves eternas quando deixámos para trás o fiozinho de água do Kunduz, no ponto em que iniciava a sua longa viagem em direcção ao Oxus e ao Mar de Aral. Cinco minutos mais tarde, outro fiozinho iniciava uma viagem ao encontro do rio Indo e do Oceano Índico. A geografia tem as suas emoções.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.

Atitudinea ta, nu aptitudinea, este cea care determina altitudinea ta.

Hope is the engine of your attitude, and your attitude determines your altitude.

It's your ATTITUDE not your APTITUDE that ultimately determines your ALTITUDE!

Ce ne est pas votre aptitude, mais votre attitude qui détermine votre altitude et l'amplitude dans la vie! Avoir une attitude positive - toujours!

Training at altitude took two weeks to get used to.

I don't know if it's just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-cowboy values rubbing off on me, but I've grown slightly mellower living in Wyoming. I think if you ride into the West on a high horse, you pretty soon end up in a pile of manure.

I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.

But until then, and right now, the sun is bright, the air is cool, my head is clear, there's a whole day ahead of us, we're almost to the mountains, it's a good day to be alive. It's this thinner air that does it. You always feel like this when you start getting into higher altitudes.

Darkness at high altitude, the midflight quietude, always makes him think of the bottom of the ocean. There's a submarine quality to the experience, a sense of dredging the bottom instead of scraping up against the stratosphere.

Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.

A fellow undergraduate student, majoring in history, as was I, who didn't care about the advanced aerodynamic principles of things like boundary layer separation during stalls and exactly why you might get detonation within the cylinders of the engine if the mixture was grossly improperly adjusted for a given power setting at a given altitude.

You knew the fate of civilization was being decided fifteen thousand feet above your head in a world of sun, wind and sky . . . You knew it, but even so it was hard to take it in.