“ Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight. ”
- Ishikawa Takuboku- Copy
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“ Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas. ”
- Orville Wright- Copy
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“ The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour. ”
- Steve Fossett- Copy
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“ I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. ”
- Dame Edith Sitwell- Copy
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“ What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. ”
- Arnold Palmer- Copy
- 684
“ If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. ”
- Horace G. Hutchinson- Copy
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“ Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. ”
- Georg Hermes- Copy
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“ The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. ”
- Paul Theroux- Copy
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“ One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. ”
- Golda Meir- Copy
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“ Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates. ”
- Doug Larson- Copy
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“ The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ The flight was extremely normal... for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting. ”
- Pete Conrad- Copy
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“ The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle Two game cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farmyard. One at last put the other to flight. The vanquished Cock skulked away and hid himself in a quiet corner, while the conqueror, flying up to a high wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might… ”
- Aesop- Copy
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“ So far there have been few problems. A broken winch was readily repaired by the crew, as was a batten problem in the mainsail. Sailing winds have been excellent and at one point we were flying a hull. ”
- Steve Fossett- Copy
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“ INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. Among the Romans it was customary before undertaking any important action or enterprise to obtain from the augurs, or state prophets, some hint of its probable outcome; and one of their favorite and most trustworthy modes of divination consisted in observing the flight of birds — the omens thence derived being called auspices… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
- 2.8K
“ When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
- 1.6K
“ A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off? ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
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“ Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past. ”
- Real Live Preacher- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Did I ever tell you about a nasty habit that flight attendants pick up on the job? We learn to always keep smiling, even when we're out of Bloody Mary Mix. ”
- Eric Wald- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
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