Flights Quotes

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson

Hope, Future, Mind

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Harry Dean Stanton

Good, May, Night

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson

Hope, Mind, Human

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.
Richard Branson

Two, Lucky, Ways

On both of my flights, everything went very well.
Sally Ride

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Edith Sitwell

Art, Greatest, Unhappy

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.
Lewis Thomas

Nature, Trying, Country

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

Sleep, Hear, Known

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
Phil Collins

Remember, Before, Early

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

Birthday, Long, Eyes

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
Orville Wright

Knowledge, Today, Strange

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

Time, Father, Living

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.
Robin Gibb

Walk, Full, Sing

I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.
Rufus Sewell

Style, Holidays, Longer

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.
Caroline Wozniacki

Travel, Player, Tennis

U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
Ingrid Newkirk

National, Animal, Middle

I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life - it took two years to get!
Jay Kay

Life, Love, Greatest

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
Adolf Galland

Lost, Five, Pilots

We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights.
Mark Kelly

Two, Edge, Leading

I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
Bam Margera

Play, After, Playing

'Star Wars' is such a phenomenal global supernova that anything that gets said about it becomes kind of fact and gospel, and then taken by the legions of fans who are so excited to have more 'Star Wars,' that they roll off on all sorts of flights of fancy.
Seth Green

Said, Off, Fact

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
Harold Brodkey

Death, Mother, Revolution

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

Food, Long, Light

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
Ian Hacking

Future, Hard, Done

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.
Linda M. Godwin

Changes, Along, Theory

The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights.
Mark Kelly

Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear.
Gerard Arpey

Business, Become, Public

After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall.
Marc Garneau

Two, After, Fall

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.
Leroy Chiao

Good, Keep, State

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

Often, Places, Paris

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