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Quotes About Flight

The features of the face suggested strangeness, in a manner that owed nothing to their composition, which was quite ordinary. It was a clever face, and strong, but its cleverness and strength had nothing to do with the world. This man might walk through beauty or filth, through fire or flood or anguish, and not notice it, or at least not suffer it, for his brain was in constant flight, negotiating some other plain beyond all physical things.
~ Tanith Lee
In my position, the right witchdoctor Might have caught you in flight with his bare hands, Tossed you, cooling, one hand to the other, Godless, happy, quieted. I managed A wisp of your hair, your ring, your watch, your nightgown.
~ Ted Hughes
The little comfort of love? -Is that comfort so little? -Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.
~ Tenesse Williams
Municipal Airport.
~ Julie Campbell
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don't want to write anything but takes.
~ Julio Cortazar
Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan.
~ Junot Diaz
Los que menos corren, vuelan
~ Junot Diaz
The only thing he could come up with was the story of Joseph and Mary and the flight into Egypt—a boyhood memory, because Grey hadn't been to church in years. Joseph had always seemed like an odd duck, taking care of a woman who was carrying somebody else's baby. But Grey was beginning to see the sense in it, how a person could become attached just by being wanted.
~ Justin Cronin
Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star dust, the residue from our creation. Most are too busy to notice it, and it is stronger in some than others. It is strongest in those of us who fly and is responsible for an unconscious, subtle desire to slip into some wings and try for the elusive boundaries of our origin.
~ K.O. Eckland
Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.
~ K?b? Abe
Be like a Bird in Flight. Be able to see Before You, Around You, and Behind You At All Times. - Kailin Gow on Awareness
~ Kailin Gow
I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.
~ Randy Johnson
If you go for wickets all the time, then you will go for runs as well because you will have to flight the ball and invite the batsmen to hit you.
~ Imran Tahir
Flight attendants all over the world saw 'Sex and the City.' Doesn't matter what country you are in. The flight attendants know Jack Berger.
~ Ron Livingston
When your flying in a jet aircraft, everything goes much faster.
~ Shannon Walker
She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.
~ Francine Pascal
Umys?owi ludzkiemu nie skrzyde? potrzeba, lecz o?owiu.
~ Francis Bacon
Todo en el aire es pájaro.
~ Francisco Umbral
Every incident in the history of the world, whether it was the flight of a gnat or a great battle, revealed by the very fact of its occurrence the mystery that was inherent in it.
~ Franz Werfel
There is no flying without wings.
~ French proverb
Why do I need feet when I have wings to fly?
~ Frida Kahlo
Time flies on restless pinions — constant never.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Perspective prys her once-weighty eyes and it gives you wings.
~ Brandon Boyd
The man threw down his hoe and ran.
~ Brandon Mull