Flying Aircraft Quotes

#1. I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children; now I am morbidly obsessed by seat-belts and constantly afraid that low-flying aircraft will drop on my children's school.

Margaret Drabble

#2. The imaginary is what tends to become real.

Andre Breton

#3. Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are out of balance temporally or spiritually.

Brent L. Top

#4. We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

Douglas Bader

#5. Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.

Mark Kelly

#6. Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.

Corrie Ten Boom

#7. What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U.S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys.

Douglas Brinkley

#8. I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village.

David Mackay

#9. They say he "hit a square" while flying his small aircraft; a situation in which it is impossible to tell up from down or earth from sky and that he lost his way.

Alice Walker

#10. Flying is absolute freedom. I know the feeling of flying from various aircraft. But there was always something surrounding me that I had to control. As Fusion Man, it's like I am naked, I only have the wings that carry me. It's like a dream.

Yves Rossy

#11. Your mind is your biggest enemy and your dearest friend.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

Ben Goldacre

#13. I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.

Norman Foster

#14. Ari felt like, Hellooo, I have wings! I turn into a wolf! Blending is out is out of the question!

James Patterson

#15. The way an aircraft flies - that is the way the strategy works. Most of the time the plane is on autopilot, and does a great job of flying itself. Every once in a while it is necessary for the pilot to jump in.

Roy Niederhoffer

#16. I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.

Henri Coanda

#17. Flying in a modern jet airplane doses the human with levels of radiation comparable to those found in nuclear disaster zones.

Steven Magee

#18. Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.

Paul Martin

#19. I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

Leroy Chiao

#20. The entire point of a new theory is that it is unprecedented; the first man to invent a jet aircraft could scarcely submit examples of jet aircraft flying in the past.

Stefan Molyneux

#21. ...I stand looking at the aircraft, trying in vain to remember all the theoretical lore which i was supposed to have absorbed in school. The effort is discouraging.

Ernest K. Gann

#22. For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet.

Nennius

#23. It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner.

Alwyn Hamilton

#24. At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

Charles Lindbergh

#25. I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.

Eugene Cernan