Quotes About Flight

We were at sixty thousand feet. You're thirty percent lighter up there.

You should not have run.

In the months since Challenger, Baedecker had found it hard to believe that the country had ever flown so frequently and competently into space. The long hiatus of earthbound doubt in which nothing flew had become the normal state of things to Baedecker, mixing in his own mind with a dreary sense of heaviness, of entropy and gravity triumphant.

It is true that we Russians have sent only four doctors into space in forty years of flight, but still I might have had chance to fly to Mir or International Space Station except for one fact. This is that I cannot urinate—is this the right word, Mr. Roth?—I cannot urinate on wheel of bus.

People scream and run for coyer.

The Ilyushkin 72 ascended through the kingdom of clouds like a steel dragon, powerful and proud. It roared up and away from the snowy private airstrip, leaving in its wake the black ribbon dividing the alpine snowfields of a classified mountain installation.

Like our imaginary airman, they were totally unaware that there is a law that must be complied with in order to achieve civilizational flight.

Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work – catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

One solitary, overriding thought: get away from here. People frighten me.

Knowledge is Life with wings

Aquel que se ata una alegría la alada vida destruye; aquel que besa la alegría según vuela vive en la aurora de la eternidad.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning

The loneliness of flight is not entirely overwhelmed by cabin movies, the drinks, the Gemütlichkeit of shoulder-to-shoulder life.

A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

Man flieht nicht, weil man Angst hat, sondern man hat Angst, weil man flieht.

I can dig my claws into the rim of a building's crown and spread my arms and feel the buffets and gouts of boisterous air and I can close my eyes and remember, for a moment, what it is to fly.

Get back to work , he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne.

I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore.

The largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars, covers an area as big as Arizona or Italy. It's so tall that if you tried to fly over it during a normal cross-country plane flight, you'd crash into it halfway up the slope.

She had always been this way: interested-quite unnecessarily, some would say-in the secrets of strangers. When flying, she always chose a window seat so that when the plane took off or landed, she could look down on the tiny houses and imagine the lives of the people who inhabited them.