Top 30 Flight Experience Quotes
#1. The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply unforgettable.
Scott Carpenter
#2. Like a flight simulator, fiction projects us into intense simulations of problems that run parallel to those we face in reality. And like a flight simulator, the main virtue of fiction is that we have a rich experience and don't die at the end.
Jonathan Gottschall
#3. In flight ... entire days can be wound back or skipped over ... as we exist merely in a world of vapor. Adventures are both beginning and coming to a close up here as people from opposite ends of experience paradoxically move in one direction.
Josh Gates
#4. Flying in his dreams was an exhilarating, breathtaking experience, sometimes literally, that tended to leave reality wanting, like riding a roller coaster compared to mowing the lawn.
Sol Luckman
#5. It's not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters.
Johnny Hunt
#6. Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.
Raymond A. Mar
#7. To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats.
Karin Tidbeck
#8. Sometimes the fact that you were forced to be strong
J.R. Ward
#9. I've liked different women at different times in my life. I've been attracted to white women. I've been attracted to black women. I've been attracted to Asian women. I've been attracted to various subspecies of women. I can say with gratitude that I've been able to experiment.
Oliver Stone
#10. Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.
Terry Pratchett
#11. A powerful flight of the imagination ... an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.
Roger Zelazny
#13. They who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
Fanny Fern
#14. We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.
J. Willard Gibbs
#15. It's a pity I flew only once. A space flight is like a drug - once you experience it, you can't think of anything else.
Gherman Titov
#16. All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.
Mickey Gilley
#17. She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.
Jack Kerouac
#18. If I don't have time for the writing, it's because I'm not making that time. It's really just a question of whether you want to or not, whether you feel you deserve to write or not.
David Whyte
#19. By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
Burt Rutan
#22. I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.
Sarah J. Maas
#23. Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
Chuck Yeager
#25. Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.
Rashida Jones
#26. I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the filmmaking to be very clear.
John Kahrs
#27. Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.
Stephen Coonts
#28. I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.
Buzz Aldrin
#29. The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
Orville Wright
#30. I need to touch the person's head again. Experience has taught me that you can do this three times before the head's owner either yells at you or rings for the flight attendant.
David Sedaris
