In Flight Sayings

#1. The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.

John Steinbeck

#2. In my position, the right witchdoctor
Might have caught you in flight with his bare hands,
Tossed you, cooling, one hand to the other,
Godless, happy, quieted.
I managed
A wisp of your hair, your ring, your watch, your nightgown.

Ted Hughes

#3. A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

Ivan Turgenev

#4. Stephan always looked like a model, but he never needed more than ten minutes to get ready. I found it both convenient and infuriating, depending on the time of the month.
Lilley, R.K. (2012-10-20). In Flight (Up in the Air Book 1) (Kindle Locations 2695-2696). R.K. Lilley. Kindle Edition.

R.K. Lilley

#5. several seagulls somehow became confused in flight and hit the side of his house,

M.L. Banner

#6. The problem of destroying enemy rockets in flight has been successfully solved in our country.

Sergey Biryuzov

#7. I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.

Lionel Shriver

#8. Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

Marina Tsvetaeva

#9. The Ozmists around him went iridescent emerald, like light striking a thousand whirring beetles in flight, gold and emerald, emerald and gold, the colors of Lurlinemas, the colors of pine polen in champagne sunlight.

Gregory Maguire

#10. The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

Anzia Yezierska

#11. There is no substitute for taking off in flight in front of a live audience.

Tempestt Bledsoe

#12. And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

William Butler Yeats

#13. Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder. Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to recall the author's name.

George R R Martin

#14. Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder where they live: they are at home in the sky, in flight. Flight is their way of being in the world.

Geoff Dyer

#15. The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

Richard Bach

#16. He was bursting with enthusiasms. He probably loved many things: the hawk in flight, the god-damned ocean, full moon, Balzac, bridges, stage plays, the Pulitzer Prize, the piano, the god-damned Bible.

Charles Bukowski

#17. Sometimes I write captions on the in-flight magazines and then replace them in the seat pocket.

Shaun Tan

#18. I had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You thought I was a Luddite, and I thought I was as ostrich, because I hadn't figured out how to put the fly in flight. One day you broke down, and then you saw that you and I weren't so different after all.

Dora J. Arod

#19. Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him.

Moses

#20. Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight

Vladimir Nabokov

#21. It would only be in the cold gaze of hindsight that I would be able to comprehend that while in flight from pain, I became an agent of it.

Charles M. Blow

#22. Woods disguised as woods alive without end, and above them birds in flight play birds in flight.

Wislawa Szymborska

#23. She lacks mystery; and the charm people have who withdraw, and don't care to coin their views. One figures her always in flight; so much determined to embrace everything that she fails.

Virginia Woolf

#24. I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.

Richard Bach

#25. In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle - all branding, marketing and 'accessibility', a word that usually means dumbing-down.

David Chipperfield

#26. For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

George Sheehan

#27. Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

Isak Dinesen

#28. As long as the wrong feels right - it's like I'm in flight.

Eminem

#29. I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.

Sinbad

#30. The Wanderer
What is she like?
I was told
she is a
melancholy soul.
She is like
the sun to the night;
a momentary gold.
A star when dimmed
by dawning light;
the flicker of
a candle blown.
A lonely kite
lost in flight
someone once
had flown.

Lang Leav

#31. The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.

Biz Stone

#32. Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.

John Burnside

#33. I didn't say it was majestic. It's a dick, not a bald eagle in flight.

Tiffany Reisz

#34. Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I'm inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It's so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.

Alexander McQueen

#35. No fickleness in flight like that of wind or women's fancy,

Patrick Rothfuss

#36. Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

Edward Abbey

#37. All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

Neil Armstrong

#38. That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.

Janette Turner Hospital

#39. Brooms are better for sweeping than for flying," he said. "Besides, witches these days prefer airplanes. There's an in-flight snack and you arrive at your destination looking fabulous.

Z. Riddle

#40. One cultivates one's life, one's friends, one's means, one's hopes. One goes from place to place, from triumph to triumph, in search of ambition and ambition's remedy as though in flight across some imagined map, the subject of a conversation in a comfortable English room.

Jesse Ball

#41. A feather when viewed separately may seem like only a feather,
But when seen through the eyes of truth it is a sacred instrument that lifts a bird in flight.

Molly Friedenfeld

#42. I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Carroll O'Connor

#43. 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.

John Krasinski

#44. The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.

Kate Winslet

#45. Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

Chris Cleave

#46. To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.

Sallust

#47. When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?

Pablo Neruda

#48. We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#49. Life - life - let there be life!
Better a thousand times the roaring hours
When wave and wind,
Like the Arch-Murderer in flight
From the Avenger at his heel,
Storm through the desolate fastnesses
And wild waste places of the world!

William Ernest Henley

#50. Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

Jean Cocteau

#51. Compared with mammals, birds have relatively large eyes. In simple terms, a bigger eye means better vision, and excellent vision is essential for avoiding collisions in flight, or for capturing fast-moving or camouflaged prey. Birds' eyes, however, are deceptive - they are bigger than they look.

Tim Birkhead

#52. Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

Camille Paglia

#53. Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

Isaac Asimov

#54. From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

Malcolm Gladwell

#55. Love is like a butterfly
As soft and gentle as a sigh
The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings
Love makes your heart feel strange inside
It flutters like soft wings in flight
Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing

Dolly Parton

#56. If you wanna find out 101 things to do with plums, heh, read your in-flight magazine.

David Cross

#57. Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.

Rachel Carson

#58. We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens.

John Fowles

#59. In flight a bumblebee flaps its wings 200 times per second (which equals 12,000 rpm), roughly equivalent to the speed of a high-revving motorbike engine.

Dave Goulson

#60. Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far - reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. ... You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.

Adelard Of Bath

#61. Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.

Kobo Abe

#62. Little wonder I am celebrated by in-flight magazines everywhere as 'The Richard Branson of the Dark Ages

Tom Doig

#63. Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it is, starting with broad categories such as "mineral" and "linoleum."

Dave Barry

#64. In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss.

Martha Whitmore Hickman

#65. More die in flight than in battle.

Selma Lagerlof

#66. With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane.

Glenn Curtiss

#67. It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It's always dangerous to be different, to appear as a monster in most people's eyes, even from a distance.

Alice Hoffman

#68. The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight.

Martin Carter

#69. For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

Josephine Hart

#70. She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

Joss Whedon

#71. The planes are crowded and noisy and late, and everybody hates everybody. If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the flights I've been on lately, we passengers would have swiftly beaten them to death with those hard rolls you get with your in-flight meals.

Dave Barry

#72. A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.

Pete Seeger

#73. Air France's in-flight magazine.

Ervin Laszlo

#74. I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.

Biz Stone

#75. For all the loss and tragedy I have known, my life has taught me that the human spirit like the lifted hands of the blind, will rise above chaos and destruction, as wings in flight

Vaddey Ratner

#76. If my love were an ocean,
there would be no more land.
If my love were a desert,
you would see only sand.
If my love were a star-
late at night, only light.
And if my love could grow wings,
I'd be soaring in flight.

Jay Asher

#77. Don't ever over-analyze your results. Don't ever try to find your own secret or the one which you admire. One does not try to catch soap bubbles. One enjoys them in flight and is grateful for their fluid existence.

Ernst Haas

#78. We are creatures of air, Our roots in dreams And clouds, reborn In flight.

Salman Rushdie

#79. Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Georg Hermes

#80. Lean forward into your life ... catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#81. In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave.

Pablo Neruda

#82. It doesn't matter to me what he feels if I can't live with what he does.
Lilley, R.K. (2012-10-20). In Flight (Up in the Air Book 1) (Kindle Locations 4662-4663). R.K. Lilley. Kindle Edition.

R.K. Lilley

#83. If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

Fernand Point

#84. Tis time, my friend, 'tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking Fragments of being, while together you and I Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.

Alexander Pushkin

#85. World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.

Tanith Lee

#86. Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.

Sun Tzu

#87. Because our tragedy is that we diverge as countrymen further and further away from one another, like a space ship broken apart in flight which now drifts mournfully in isolated orbits, satellites to each other, planets none, communications faint.

Norman Mailer

#88. Anyone who thinks Ryanair flights are some sort of bastion of sanctity where you can contemplate your navel is wrong. We already bombard you with as many in-flight announcements and trolleys as we can. Anyone who looks like sleeping, we wake them up to sell them things.

Michael O'Leary

#89. There's no doubt that he's heading straight for tragedy. It will be beautiful, of course, but should he throw his whole life away as a sacrificial offering to such a fleeting beauty--like a bird in flight glimpsed from a window?

Yukio Mishima

#90. I never learn anything from listening to myself (Ovid Byron, in Flight Behavior)

Barbara Kingsolver

#91. Fire up your heart for the wind is getting cold, now it always gets cold for the riders of the night. When you carry that dream when you know what lonesome is looking for a home like a bird in flight.

Jon Stewart

#92. A thousand hills, but no birds in flight,
Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks.
A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man,
Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

Liu Zongyuan

#93. I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on the television show, going over to it, and there's Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert, and Annie Ross. It knocked me out of my socks, and I'm still in flight.

Al Jarreau

#94. 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

#95. And then you might learn, as we did from a local, that the reason hundreds of starlings in flight will twist and turn in unison is because the ones on the outside are constantly trying to get to the inside where they feel safer. Some

Bill Bryson

#96. The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.

Eberhard Bethge

#97. I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.

Florence Welch

#98. I very rarely listen to the in-flight stuff.

Phil Collins

#99. I am imagination; I am faster than light. I am creative spirit; I am always in flight.

Debasish Mridha

#100. The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.

Abraham Kuyper