#flights

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#apparent #appealing #approach #become #birthday

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. ↗

— Orville Wright

#already #been #even #first #flight

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#bother #crowded #flights #full #i

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#doing #flights #good #keep #maintenance

On both of my flights, everything went very well. ↗

— Sally Ride

#everything #flights #very #well #went

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#flights #good #good night #i #just

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#birds #bubbles #comes #country #delicate

After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#checks #components #fall #flights #international

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#account #autobiography #case #come #death

I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights. ↗

— Joseph Force Crater

#aviation #book #caribbean #contacts #flights