Quotes About Flight

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

Define a feather when condemned to the wind. Say how the shaft tapers, straining to be weightless. Describe what the vanes do on the air, how they luff and ruffle and flute, how the barbs somersault on the downward curve of their resisting ride.

And soon enough, she was sold on the fine art of hang gliding above the busy earth.

A hot virus from the rain forest lives within a twenty-four-hour plane flight from every city on earth. All of the earth's cities are connected by a web of airline routes. The web is a network. Once a virus hits the net, it can shoot anywhere in a day—Paris, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, wherever planes fly.

Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck.

Never seen Jason fly before, Percy grumbled. He looks like a blond Superman

The demigods have left for alaska, Stheno said. They fly straight to their death. Ah, small d death, I mean. Not our prisoner Death. Although, i suppose they're flying to him too.

Huh, said Percy. Never seen Jason fly before. He looks like a blond superman.

On it!" Hazel said. "Go, Frank!" Dragon Frank veered to the left with Annabeth in one claw yelling, "Let's get 'em!" and Percy in the other claw screaming, "I hate flying!

Fascinating, he said. Such maneuverability! How does the wingspan compensate for the weight of the horse's body, I wonder? Blackjack cocked his head. Whaaaat?

Get closer, I told Blackjack. I need to talk to the statue. Now I'm sure you've lost it, boss, he muttered, but he flew as close as he could, dodging the flying statue.

She stared at me. Fly, ;ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, AND carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb? Yeah, I said. Pretty much exactly like that.

Percy: Hey, why do pegasi gallop as they fly, anyway? Blackjack: Why do humans swing their arms as they walk? I dunno, boss. It just feels right.

I was flying right toward him (the pig) at the speed of demigod-smashing.

We hurtled through the sky like things that hurtle through the sky. The wind whipped my face. The snow blinded me. The cold was so bad it made me cold. Okay, yeah, the mead of poetry definitely wasn't working.

I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon. ~Carter Kane

Flight 2039 to Boston is now boarding at gate 14A, a voice announced over the PA system. Nellie sighed. I love Irish accents. She paused. And Australian accents. And English accents. A dreamy look came over her face. Theo had an awesome accent. Dan snorted. Yeah, there was just that one tiny problem. He turned out to be a two-timing, backstabbing thief.

The bronze dragon spread his wings, and they soared into the unknown.

I like flying cars. I prefer it when the car is actually capable of flight, however.

hooligan posse of gulls wheeled noisily overhead

The pilot was taking the helm.

A quick getaway,' she said, shucking

Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said. 'The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.