When patronised, I'm unfortunately more flight than fight. Perhaps it's because I actually feel quite wounded.
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
A woman could be totally powerless, and still give meaning to her life by dreaming about flight.
No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first.
The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and wrong.
The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.
...space flight still had a long way to go to catch up with the safety record of the milkshake industry.
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
To find out if there is actually such freedom one must be aware of one's own conditioning, of the problems, of the monotonous shallowness, emptiness, insufficiency of one's daily life, and above all one must be aware of fear. One must be aware of one...
Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say to somebody "I love you", when you are considering your children, when you educate them to become soldiers, to kill, to be nationalized, wor...
Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the pri...
Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.
Let me not anchor you to a bed of weary rocks, but let me be the kite’s string that guides you in your flight.
...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
You know what turns dirt into diamonds?" "Pressure. Weight. Heat..." "The geological equivalent of torture.
