Flying!

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together. ~Bill Gates


Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau

Think about flying--it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense. ~David Letterman


I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. ~Jean Kerr


I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport.... ~Amy Johnson

My soul is in the sky. ~William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ~G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"

I always thought that my airplane conveyed a silent sermon. To the earthbound observer, its silhouette was the shape of the cross on which Jesus was crucified. ~E.R. Trimble

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further. ~Werner von Braun

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it goes on flying anyway. ~Mary Kay Ash