Quotes About Long Flights

#1. I love long flights. The feeling of being completely unreachable is something I savor, and the limbolike state of being, having departed but not arrived, somehow allows me to catch up with myself, to regroup and check in.

Alan Cumming

#2. Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very well.

Michael Foale

#3. I don't really like long flights any more - I find them too tiring. Flying always involves the same things these days - huge crowds at airports, waiting around, late take-offs, weather problems, and so on. I don't really enjoy travelling. I don't imagine anyone does except young children.

Christopher Lee

#4. As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

Mike Wallace

#5. Voices tossed up and down the long flights of stairs, sourceless and intertwining like crickets' chorus, gentle as fingers on my hair. Night, they said, good night, sleep well. Welcome back, Lexie. Yes, welcome back. Good night. Sweet dreams.

Tana French

#6. But anyway, I was convinced that it would go away, you know. But the idea was that he was sitting on a flight - you know, one of those sort of fairly long flights, like, sort of, you know, Newark to Denver or something like that - so, you know, a few hours.

Nick Lowe

#7. Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something.

James Tate

#8. I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

Arabella Weir

#9. The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

Alexander Pope

#10. He (Kris Medlin) has a communication with a force in pitching that most of us can't talk to. It's an awareness; it's a sixth sense. When he steps in and stares in to that catcher, that little man on his shoulder's going to take over and tell him what to do. And he's done it well.

Don Sutton

#11. Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles ... It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: "I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!"

Arthur C. Clarke

#12. He grabbed Ty and dipped him backward, kissing him for all he was worth.

Abigail Roux

#13. Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

Seth Godin

#14. I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales.

Roxane Gay

#15. I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm on those long international flights, like 22 hours from L.A. to Sydney, I'll get up sometimes and do yoga in the aisle just to stretch out a little bit.

Jason O'Mara

#16. unaccustomed Tuscan sunlight, and his body ached from contorting his long frame into a plane seat. The irony of hating long distance flights wasn't lost on him. After all, he spent most of his life jetting between hotels. But he wasn't

Sally Clements

#17. There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.

Luigi Pirandello

#18. It is just possible that feminists have been literal-minded and, in pursuit of a political goal, have lost their sense of humour.

Mary Norris

#19. If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

Wayne Rooney

#20. Only force rules. Force is the first law

Adolf Hitler

#21. Do you really want to waste your precious time doing things that are neither important nor urgent?

Eddie De Jong

#22. It was a long corridor and it branched into other corridors and it led her up short flights of steps which mounted to others again. There

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#23. During my training to become an airline captain, I had to learn how to navigate an airplane over long distances. Flights over huge oceans, crossing extensive deserts, and connecting continents need careful planning to ensure a safe arrival at the planned destination.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#24. I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

Buzz Aldrin

#25. On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

Lisa Snowdon

#26. If we want to understand the distinctive constitution of Europe, we must go back to its religious foundations. For the moral beliefs which Christianity fostered still underpin civil society in Europe, the institutions that surround us.

Larry Siedentop

#27. Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often long-distance flights. If they can't go on those long-distance flights from Heathrow, they will go to Paris, they will go to Amsterdam, they will go to Frankfurt, because those are viable alternatives.

Geoff Hoon