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Quotes About Flight

We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.
~ Picabo Street
The annual flight of the dragonflies goes mostly unnoticed, though it is one of the great migrations of flying creatures that occur across North America.
~ Richard Preston
The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though.
~ Kit Harington
The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
~ Orville Wright
Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.
~ Muhammad Ali
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
~ Orville Wright
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
~ Sally Ride
In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
~ Twyla Tharp
When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.
~ Louie Schwartzberg
You don't need to move mountains when love will fly you over.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.
~ Jonathan Dimbleby
Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.
~ John Burnside
A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.
~ Ned Vizzini
The pancreas releases insulin to make you ready for fight or flight when you're scared. So if you don't fight or flight - if you stay onstage, telling jokes - then your body stores more fat in your tummy which makes you insulin resistant. All comedians have fat bellies, even if they exercise.
~ Sara Pascoe
I know it's kind of a strange thing I'm talking about, but another part of me truly believes I can fly, like somehow my mind can figure it out.
~ Dean Potter
Contrails. Also helicopters. Skydivers. Basically everything
~ Tim Pratt
With respect to altitude, MEA means you would fly the highest of the following: Minimum en route altitude, Expected altitude, or Assigned altitude. When do you leave your clearance limit? That depends.
~ Timothy E. Heron
Instrument pilots cannot descend from an en route altitude to an approach-level altitude or ultimately the minimum descent altitude when they wish.
~ Timothy E. Heron
Quest Nutrition MCT Oil Powder y Quest Nutrition Coconut Oil Powder Kettle & Fire Bone Broth dos o tres veces por semana Idebenona «es otro compuesto que tomo [400 mg] cuando vuelo o antes de realizar ejercicio intenso. Considero la idebenona como una versión de la coenzima Q10. Se absorbe mejor y llega a la mitocondria con más facilidad. Es como un antioxidante mitocondrial».
~ Timothy Ferriss
Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus
En la vida siempre se presenta una buena oportunidad. El problema radica en saberla reconocer y eso, a menudo, no es tan sencillo. La mía, sin ir más lejos, tenía todo el aspecto de ser una maldición. Un adivino me dijo: "¡Atención! En 1993 correrás un enorme riesgo de muerte. No vueles durante todo ese año. No tomes ningún vuelo".
~ Tiziano Terzani
I could fly. Nobody ever promised I won't die. Yet without wings I flew And now without regret For promises unkept For things undone Now without much pain I feel like flying yet... again.
~ Tiziano Terzani
Quello di cui hai paura è la paura e non gli aerei. S vuoi non avere paura, devi volare. Siediti su un aereo convinto che niente di succederà, e niente ti succederà. […] Il pericolo è nella vita stessa, anche tu sei nato solo per morire.
~ Tiziano Terzani
You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.
~ Alan Shepard