Glider Quotes

#1. The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination.

Norman Foster

#2. I'm flying!
Of course, I'm not flying so much as coasting over the treetops like a hang glider or a freakishly large flying squirrel.

Cynthia Hand

#3. I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot.

Paul Nurse

#4. It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland.

Denene Millner

#5. She felt certain she could make the trip in a quarter hour on Emery's paper glider, but he insisted that the world wasn't ready for such eccentricity.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#6. Eastman Jacob's legendary attempt to launch a car attached to a glider plane using Hampton's Tony Chesapeake Avenue as a runway only confirmed the Hamptonian's feelings that the Good Lord didn't always see fit to give book sense and common sense to the same individual.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#7. In fact, humans on Titan could fly by muscle power. A human in a hang glider could comfortably take off and cruise around powered by oversized swim-flipper boots - or even take off by flapping artificial wings. The power requirements are minimal - it would probably take no more effort than walking.

Randall Munroe

#8. The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

Alan Shepard

#9. To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.

R.C. Sproul

#10. remodeled glider to Kill Devil Hills to resume testing.

David McCullough

#11. Then since the autopilot will have it trimmed out to fly in a straight line, the glider will begin what the pilot calls a controlled descent. That kind of a descent, I tell him, would be nice for a change.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.

Nate Holland

#13. I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.

Bertrand Piccard

#14. The air to a glider pilot is a reality ... He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn its flow, its laws, and to try and use this knowledge to his own ends.

Philip Wills

#15. I just told you I didn't - and I don't like to be doubted," he scolds. "I didn't go anywhere last weekend. I sat and made the glider you gave me. Took me forever," he adds quietly.

E.L. James

#16. didn't know a person alive that can hold onto a hundred bucks for an entire year when you had a penchant for all things Avatar. That glider replica I bought

G.L. Tomas

#17. A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, 'I've been going for three months. ' I said, 'How many successful jumps do you need to make before you graduate?' He said, 'All of them. '

Red Skelton

#18. Ceony shook her head. "No. Except I lost your glider. That's how I got to the barn."
"Hmm," he replied, nodding. "I hope you closed the roof."
She hadn't.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#19. The Queen of England jumped out of a helicopter and parachuted into the stadium. What was even more amazing was when Prince Charles flew in using his ears as a hang glider.

Jay Leno

#20. It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

Beck

#21. I blink a few times and focus as hard as I can on the only face I can see. It is contorted with anger. His eyes are dark blue.

"Four," I croak.

Veronica Roth

#22. I'm fucking demanding, and you should know that if you ever feel like experimenting and ask me for a threesome, I'm most likely to cut off your dick and feed it to my neighbor's Chihuahua.

Taylor V. Donovan

#23. The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

William Butler Yeats

#24. He bowed over her hand and kissed the knuckles. He'd never despised a glove more in his life.

Kristi Ann Hunter

#25. The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn't know what she's doing.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#26. I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation.

Jean Thompson