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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.

We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer.

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.

And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.