Fly Quotes

Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly.

There's a lot of interest there in the missions that I fly on and the ones my brother's involved with.

And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

I'm scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.

And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a degree.