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"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine."
"I know that experts say you're more likely to get hurt crossing the street than you are flying, but that doesn't make me any less frightened of flying. If anything, it makes me more afraid of crossing the street."
"Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?"
"Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom."
"This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world."
"Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously."
"His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much."
"It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy."
"My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home."
"Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying."
"Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground."
"I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not."
"I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline."
"Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy."
"We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth."
"When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that - fantasies."
"There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction."
"My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground."
"If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless."
"What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?"
