Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they."
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Richard Bach
Author
"Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly."
Richard Bach
Author
"For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."
Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"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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"Let your soul and spirit fly."
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"Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind."
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"If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing."
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"Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start."
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"I just loved the feeling of flying. I could jump six feet bareback and it was the closest thing to being Pegasus and flying next to God. It's the most liberating freedom-making feeling in the world."
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"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
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"My soul is in the sky."
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"You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance."
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"Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills."
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"Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again"
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"Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places."
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"Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss."
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"The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying."
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"My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom."
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"A foolish dog barks at a flying bird"
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"There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon."
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"Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again."
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"Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
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"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."
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"I'm not an old-fashioned, booze-and-drugs rock 'n' roller. For me, rock 'n' roll is all about doing whatever you want. It's about defying convention and being who you are. I'd rather go swimming or running or kite flying."
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