Steven Wright
Comedian
"How do you get off a non-stop flight?"
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Flight
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Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame."
Plotinus
Philosopher
"And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone."
Edward Young
Poet, Playwright
"How blessings brighten as they take their flight."
Stella Young
Disability Rights Activist
"No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp."
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"Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours."
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"Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime."
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"Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground."
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"As long as the wrong feels right - it's like I'm in flight."
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"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."
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"Indulge your imagination in every possible flight."
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"To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion."
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"If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well."
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"Every flight begins with a fall."
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"Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions."
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"And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite."
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"And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight."
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"Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over."
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"I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God."
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"Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt."
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"Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?"
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"My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me he is obsessed with."
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"The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming."
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"Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons."
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"Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night"
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