Top 485 Flying Quotes

More and more, the superrich don’t live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them on private jets, perhaps, concealing many of their real estate purchases through webs of shell companies and trusts.

If you’re flying everyone Business and First Class to meet customers, it’s a pretty substantial expense, and none of that benefits customers.

I love flying around the world doing what I do – that keeps me so busy.

The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it’s occasionally necessary.

And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

I’m afraid of flying.

Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

Same with anyone who’s been flying for years and loves it still… we’re part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we’re one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

Traveling around the world is really strenuous for me, being in a different bed every night, flying and everything.

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

If you manifest your true self through nature and your normal surroundings, I find that the most eerie. Like when you see birds suddenly start flying in a different direction or when you see moths forming weird shapes, I think that’s the weirdest way to let yourself be known.

I hate flying. I literally cry in the airport sometimes. I didn’t used to; the more I fly, the worse it gets. It’s weird!

Two songs I like are ‘High Flying Adored’ and ‘Another Suitcase Another Hall,’ both from ‘Evita.’

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you’re flying by the seat of your pants – particularly when they’re rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean – what’s that? What’s it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.

There’s so much stuff flying around online, and it’s so easy to get into arguments with people.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

With Mtn Dew Game Fuel, I’m flying off buildings and hitting 360 snipes with more precision than ever.

I sometimes wonder why I do so much research – I look at other successful writers, and I think it must just be so relaxing to write about flying horses or something, but I have to make it plausible.

It still amazes me, when I go out and fly the T-38, and I’m looking at those little, short, skinny little wings, and that thing’s flying. It’s just amazing to me, even now.

Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied down in the airplane. And the IMAX camera has to be rock-steady through all this. We had to design special mounts on the left and right sides of the cabin and in the cockpit to hold the cameras.

I’m trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere – over my notes – and I – how do you ‘lean in’ at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?

And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.

The flying? I’m not worried about it. I’m safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.

I’m a huge fan of Flying Lotus. I like The XX’s stuff.

The thing I like most about flying in space is not the view. The thing I like about it is doing something I feel very, very strongly about.

You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball-size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.

In most every other country, ‘body flying’ more commonly known as BASE jumping is legal and looked upon as a beautiful art. Here in the United States, those of us who pursue human flight are treated as criminals and are forced to travel abroad to seek one of man’s most fundamental desires, to fly free.

I want to create a superhero… which everyone will say that we have a superhero called ‘A Flying Jatt’.

Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.

‘Flying Jatt’ is a superhero movie, and the villain needs to be really strong.

I didn’t even start dancing until I was in my thirties, and it was like flying.

I love the idea that I can change the worst possible thing to the best possible thing: dying to flying.

But I don’t think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don’t want to talk about that.

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.

I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they’re just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided.

I once made myself black out by pulling G too quickly while flying an F-18. Being unconscious in a single-seat airplane is not good. Fortunately, I woke up in time. I learned how to better plug-in my anti-G suit.

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

I think there are some people who have talent flying out of their fingers and other actors who hone their craft. I am an actor who found their way. I bettered myself throughout my career, and I am proud of that fact.

Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they’ll often start flying off the handle. But I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, you’ve had those times in your life. Everybody has.’

Flying dreams mean that you’re doing the right thing with your life.

India was a sensation. It was remarkable to see all those parrots flying about, the brilliant foliage and the brilliant sky. It was a tremendous pageant. I never noticed the poverty.

I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It’s just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?

I wake up every morning, and life is different. I’ve got a gig or a shoot. Flying here, flying there. Meeting wicked people. Going to amazing places. I’m relishing it.

We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

I think the American sports culture has the idea that professional athletes need so much, like flying private planes, which obviously we don’t, but that’s the American sports culture when they think of the NFL and the NBA.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

One way to understand light in the ocean of air is by flying it. Life in the air is an extension of perceiving.

I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

Jazz is pretty much the freest thing you can be a part of. It’s the closest thing I can get to flying. It’s fun, interactive. In its own way, it’s a sport.

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

I’m Ric Flair! The Stylin’, profilin’, limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin’ n’ dealin’ son of a gun!

Well, eating is very similar to eating on Earth. Of course, there is no gravity, so your food does float around. So you have to be a little bit more careful that it doesn’t go flying off your fork or spoon.