Quotes About Flight

I have 'Focus' on my phone, and I watch it every time I have a flight. Best movie ever... it's because of Margot Robbie, by the way.

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.

When I fly, I always drink a ton of water - no alcohol - and limit my food intake, which makes me feel best when I land. Otherwise, my body reacts to salty food and alcohol by puffing up immediately.

And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened.

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.

During one of the Apollo missions, I saw Walter Cronkite showing off the flight plan. It just mesmerized me. All this detail! That's what I wanted.

One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.

I had actually had an injury that happened to me personally on a flight - an overhead bag fell directly on top of my head while I was on a plane. I was out of it; I was completely out of it.

The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It's our job as much as anyone's to make sure we make it as safe as possible up there for them.

I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground.

I try to bring a lot of water on the plane with me and eat a really good meal.

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.

If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'

The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.

On the plane, I dampen cotton pads with toner and put on lotion twice as much.

Motherhood takes vanity completely out of the picture. Comfort is the key. When you are coming out of a plane after a 9-hour flight with drool all over your clothes, the last thing you are worried about is being photographed. You just want to take your kid home.

Heights are a problem for me. I'm not a brave flier and I'd never jump out of a plane or do a bungee jump.

In planes, I used to try to look behind the clouds to see if I saw an angel.