A foolish dog barks at a flying bird
Turning fifty. . . is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.
Congressional investigations. . . are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit of interest. . . Since most of the material presented to the committee is classified, the hearings are never printed.
Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.
Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. . . . It is true that attempts at gliding had been made hundreds of years before him, and that in the nineteenth century, Cayley, Spencer, Wenham, Mouillard, and many others were reported to have made feeble attempts to glide, but their failures were so complete that nothing of value resulted.
Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.
If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.
There is no more exciting sport than flying, for if you lose, you die.
Good flying never killed an enemy yet.
Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.
By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.
The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and they turn it to their purposes and make a living out of it, then they become not "that person," but they become "that writer" or "that doctor" or "that supervisor. "
The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.
At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.
I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise To fly.