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Flying Quotes

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"In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles."
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"I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield."
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"It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours."
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"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."
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"The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying."
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"I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen."
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"You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains."
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"All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part."
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"I think there's a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth."
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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
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"I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship."
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"Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters."
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"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
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"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."
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"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."
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"Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified."
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"I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster."
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"I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it."
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"When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good."
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"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."
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"I hate flying, flat out hate its guts."
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"Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table."
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"But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit."
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"The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur."
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"The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature."
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"I'm afraid of flying."
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"You've got to keep things flying."
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"I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat."
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"Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying."
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"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
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"Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price."
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"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."
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"I could have gone on flying through space forever."
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"Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed."
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"In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school."
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"I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way."
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"I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!"
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"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."
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"A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle."
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"I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt."
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"I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists."
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"The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it."
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"I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living."
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"When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying."
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"I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman."
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"The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring."
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"Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter."
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"I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt."
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"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."
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"When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on."
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