Pastoral Resources

Time is flying never to return.

I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.

To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.