Formation Flying Quotes

#1. Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us - long-range radar, still not in sight."
Piper leaned over the console. "Are you sure they're Roman?"
Leo rolled his eyes. "No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they're Roman!

Rick Riordan

#2. Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job done.

Stuart Symington

#3. Jim, I studied engineering in college. When I see things, I see them.

Ayn Rand

#4. I love the idea that an abuse can be negated. And that the things most often disabused are notions.

David Levithan

#5. After twelve years of living in Hawaii, I'd gotten a serious case of 'rock fever.' I just couldn't live on an island any longer.

Tess Gerritsen

#6. Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're sending us the Air Force, Chico, and we made it with a donkey," he said.

Maureen Daly

#7. At some point Levi had put his left arm around her and pulled her back against his chest - she'd been fidgeting and rubbing her back on the wall, and Levi just reached behind her and pulled her into him.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.

Francisco Lopez

#9. My butterflies are still going strong. I just hope they are flying in formation.

Larry Mize

#10. I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.

Gordon Cooper

#11. Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease, and lightness in what I am doing? If there isn't, then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

Eckhart Tolle

#12. Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

George Sand

#13. Nonsense," Bridget said. "The secret to happiness is freedom - and the secret to freedom is courage.

Liz Rosenberg

#14. As the victim of those impulses she must be looking in the paper for his obituary.

Saul Bellow

#15. There is hardly anything as beautiful as
a woman in a long dress
not even the sunrise
not even the geese flying south
in the long V formation
in the bright freshness
of early morning.

Charles Bukowski

#16. Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.

Luigi Pirandello

#17. There is a period of tapering when we're not in the gym quite as long to try to save our bodies, but leading up to the competition we try to keep things similar to the rest of the year.

Jonathan Horton