#fly

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#astronaut #being #best #better #business

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#inside #life #live #many #people

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#beef #believe #corn #expect #fly

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#ceos #class #companies #economy #first

When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#clark #daily #fly #glasses #his

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#complications #events #faith #great #know

Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#feel #flying #global #global warming #hurricanes

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#fly #how #know #man #must

Fang swerved closer to me, big and supremely graceful, like a black panther with wings. Oh, God. I'm so stupid. Forget I just said that. "He needs a Band-Aid," I said. A look passed between me and Fang, full of suppressed humor, relief, understanding,love — Forget I said that too. I don't know what's wrong with me. ↗

— James Patterson

#flying #friendship #funny #humor #lol

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school. ↗

— W. Richard Stevens

#decided #flying #future #get #grad