Quotes About Flight

I cut off my head and threw it in the sky.

His hands keep turning into birds, and his hands keep flying away from him. Eventually the birds must land. - Unfinished Duet

We'd caught a commuter flight from there to Philadelphia, and from there to Seattle and now Fairbanks. It reminded me a little of the crazy flights I'd had to take from Siberia back to the U.S. That journey had also gone via Seattle. I was starting to believe that city was a gateway to obscure places.

You know what we need?" I was sitting between Eddie and Lissa, on our flight from Seattle to Fairbanks. As the shortest-marginally-and the mastermind, I'd gotten stuck with the middle seat. "A new plan?" asked Lissa. "A miracle?" asked Eddie. I paused and glared at them both before responding. Since when had they become the comedians here?

You seemed so far away, Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings, Matilda said. It was wonderful.

This place we're flying over now isn't in the atlas, is it?' the pilot said, grinning. 'You're darn right it isn't in the atlas!' cried the Head of the Air Force. 'We've flown clear off the last page!

I HAS A PET BEE THAT MAKES ROCK AND ROLL MUSIK WHEN IT FLIES.

the bed having been pushed on board just before take off. Grandpa

I IS ABEL TO JUMP OUT OF ANY HIGH WINDOW AND FLOTE DOWN SAFELY.

Je leek zo heel ver weg,' fluisterde juffrouw Engel diep onder de indruk. 'O, dat was ik ook. Ik vloog langs de sterren met zilveren vleugels,' zei Matilda. 'Het was fantastisch.

Then, high above their heads, they heard the call of a wild duck. They all looked up, and they saw the four birds, lovely against the blue sky, flying very close together, heading back to the lake in the woods.

She might get high enough to crash—no higher.

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

Why do you need to fly so much?" she asked. "If I don't, it'll catch up with me." The words just came out. "What will?" I took my hands from my face, panting. I stared out at the storm. "Unhappiness.

Kenneth Oppel

Wasn't it wonderful of Angus and Emma to spring for first class tickets?" "Yes." "It's an incredibly long flight, you know." "Yes." "They'll show us a movie or two." "Yes." She leaned close to him, smiling. "I love traveling with you. You're so agreeable." He gave her an annoyed look. "Are you going to talk the whole time?" She smiled sweetly. "Yes.

If the story is unflattering and the feeling is anger, adrenaline kicks in. Under the influence of adrenaline, blood leaves our brains to help support our genetically engineered response of "fight or flight," and we end up thinking with the brain of a reptile. We say and do dim-witted things.

That was the thing about kite flying : your mind drifted with the kite

Jenks, you can fly me up the rest of the way to Trent, and then pow! I give Trent his statue. Pow, you'll be naked! Jenks exclaimed. (Rachel and Jenks)

My flight was announced by Donald Duck noises from a loudspeaker; I arose and shuffled off towards the statistical improbability of dying in an airplane crash. Personally, the thought of such a death appalls me little – what civilized man would not rather die like Icarus than be mangled to death on a Motorway by a Ford Popular?

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.