#flying

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men. ↗

— Graham Greene

#don-quixote #flying #travel #business

Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class. ↗

— John Lanchester

#coach-class #flying #money #wealth #business

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#faith #flying #inspirational #profound #wings

Though I fly through the Valley of Death, I shall fear no evil, for I am at 80,000 feet and climbing. ↗

— Anonymous

#military #death

I want to be a bird that is not afraid of falling since it's been flying for so long. ↗

— Iva Marija Bulić

#dying #fear #flying-horses #freedom #life

They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap! ↗

— James Patterson

#erasers #flying #maximum-ride #wings #remember

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

— Douglas Adams

#ground #how #learning #miss #throw

There is none other like me. There is none other like her. We are unbelievable, impossible. I fly as high as the Heavens which cast me out. I have run out my comet's course: she is the world, I have sought out. Round her I have cast the loop of my orbit, and am held fast and safe; she is my Sea of Tranquility, my Milky Way, bearded with Berenice's Hair. I am a new constellation, pegged out in the sky. I am joy. Complete. For ever. ↗

— Rosie Garland

#heaven #love #lovers #star #stars

There is a trick to flying. The angels told me." He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as a human being. When you are human, you discover that there is great power in hating the earth. And it can almost make you fly. But it never will." I had frowned, not quite understanding him. "So, what's the trick?" "Love the sky. ↗

— Anne Fortier

#hope #inspirational #inspirational

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly. ↗

— William Empson

#inspirational #inspirational