Quotes About Flying Travel

#1. I have on my bookshelf a book called 'Movie Monsters' by Alan Ormsby, a kids' book I got when I was in kindergarten. It started there.

Jason Henderson

#2. If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

Kyo Maclear

#3. Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete.

Mark Rippetoe

#4. It feels like flying and landing to all the continents of the world with the use of my imaginary paper that can floats in the air.

Alexina Benavidez

#5. I am no fan of plane travel. I have always been too skeptical of the physics of the phenomenon to ever be truly comfortable in an airplane.

Julie Metz

#6. My first thought was that a tornado had somehow picked me up and carried me off, like in the Wizard of Oz. No old witches pedaled by, and I didn't see any flying farm animals or chicken coops, and after a few agonizing minutes, I fell deep into unconsciousness again.

J.R. Rain

#7. 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

#8. The two events were probably unrelated, but both jolted Dave the way a sudden air pocket reminds nervous passengers that they're soaring above the clouds in a pressurized metal tube.

Dan Sofer

#9. If you don't feel great on the inside, just look great on the outside, and after a while you won't be able to tell the difference

Morgan Matson

#10. It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream.
This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel - past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment ...

J.K. Rowling

#11. When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

Calvin Trillin

#12. What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.

Gwynne Shotwell

#13. Why demons, when man himself is a demon?' the Nobel Laureate Singer's 'last demon' asked from his attic in Tishevitz. To which Chamcha's sense of balance, his much-to-be-said-for-and-against reflex, wished to add: 'And why angels, when man is angelic too?

Salman Rushdie

#14. If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane.

Peter Diamandis

#15. The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

Virginia Postrel

#16. He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house ... he feels he is riding a floating skeleton ... Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible.

Michael Ondaatje

#17. If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary.

Robert Crandall

#18. I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

Hedy Lamarr

#19. I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand ... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.

Jacqueline Cochran

#20. Because no matter how far you may travel, you are what you are, and even when you are flying at thrilling new heights, circling the sun and thinking you belong in the halo of that perfect golden light, you do not. The wings always melt, and you always crash-land in your same old self.

Jeff Lindsay

#21. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#22. For all the jokes and complaints about the aches of air travel, it's pretty marvelous, if you think about it.

Tsh Oxenreider

#23. With the earth firmly beneath our feet, we can approach what attracts us, and withdraw from what unnerves us. If there is real danger, we can run. Mobility means security, both physically and emotionally. Flying takes away our most basic way of regulating feelings.

Capt Tom Bunn LCSW

#24. The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

Henry David Thoreau

#25. All men die in solitude; all values are degraded in a state of misery: that is what Shakespeare tells me

Eugene Ionesco

#26. I was 8,569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out.

Kristine K. Stevens

#27. I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

Orlando Bloom

#28. What an idiot Santa is for flying around alone. Because who would want to travel the world without another person's heartbeat beside him?

Rachel Cohn

#29. The Delta agent saw my itinerary and said, 'You're flying to Jakarta via Atlanta, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur? You must have really pissed off your travel agent.

Tucker Elliot

#30. Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

Graham Greene

#31. I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.

Uri Geller

#32. I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.

Bob Hope

#33. Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors ... Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

Richard Branson

#34. Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey.

Ali Babacan

#35. The best thing about flying first class ... was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.

Sarah-Kate Lynch

#36. There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.

Theo Cowan

#37. You see, she was gonna be an actress and I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, and I took off for the sky. And here, she's acting happy, inside her handsome home. And me, I'm flying in my taxi, taking tips, and getting stoned. I go flying so high, when I'm stoned.

Harry Chapin

#38. Either way, the view stabbed its way into his chest, as if it were trying to finish him off before he even landed.

Sere Prince Halverson