Quotes About Flight

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.

We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.

I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

How perfect is running? This grand delusion of flight? Away from our demons, ever away, until even the self sobs loose, spins lost in our wake. Perfect, oh yes. And a thing to despise. No distance can win an escape; no speed can outrun this self and all its host of troubles. It's only the sweet exhaustion that follows that we so cherish. An exhaustion so pure it is as close to dying as we can get without actually doing so.

Dragonflies big enough to ride - imagine whizzing through the clouds, looking down on everything! Seeing how beautiful it all was, and then dropping hundreds of bombs on it.

Ain't nothing so tensifying as running for your life at a snail's pace

Ain't nothing so tensifying as running for your life at a snail's pace, let me tell you

Kruppe has always considered you mere aspects of himself, a half-dozen Hungers among many, as it were. Yet, for all your needs, you would urge what of your master? That he turn back from his flight, of course. That one's own skull is too worthy a chamber for deception to reign—and yet Kruppe assures you from long experience that all deceit is born in the mind and there it is nurtured while virtues starve.

Felisin ducked as something winged past her, leaving in its wake a musty, dead smell.

If dreams of flying are the last hope of freedom I will pray for wings with my last breath.

I am a caged bird, rattling the bars of my cage, with furious flutterings, break my chains! Free my spirit! Let me fly with the wings you have drawn upon my soul with heaven dipped ink

Nothing taxes a bird's muscles as much as flying,

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Was it an awakening to the bizarreness of the world that instigated their flight, or was curiosity a consequence of their running away?

wings greater than wings wings greater than walls

I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.

I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

I like my flight sims because I can set up a very robust joystick setup and my head tracking software.

The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

I want wings. That's all I've ever wanted.