What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hide hole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luke Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there's a message there, I don't think I want to hear it.
Flying Quotes (272 Quotes)
The best news is that he has all of his hours in to be a pilot, but the only thing he has to do is take a three- to-four-hour test, and he doesn't have time to do it until after football season. He's pretty locked on the ground until football season is over, at the least in the flying sense.
Rarely a night goes by that I don't dream I'm flying.
The opportunity to take part in this exciting new technology and have the privilege of applying my years of broadcast experience is truly the greatest adventure of my career. Cousin Brucie is flying.
I feel like a kid. I just love the feeling and the freedom. It's like flying, and flying has been a part of my life.
I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.
In Mercury, you couldn't translate. You could just change attitude. But you were actually flying it like a flying machine in Gemini.
I passed close to the pterodactyl swamp, and as I did so, with a dry, crisp, leathery rattle of wings, one of these great creatures--it was twenty feet at least from tip to tip--rose up from somewhere near me and soared into the air. As it passed across the face of the moon the light shone clearly through the membranous wings, and it looked like a flying skeleton against the white, tropical radiance.
Flying under the radar is great. I could care less if anybody talks about us. We're still doing what we try to do, which is win a championship.
''The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.
Historically, gas prices alone have not discouraged people from taking summer trips. You'll see more people driving because it's still cheaper than flying.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Yet, Freedom yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.
Flying in to pick up the sand bags we had to pick up, there was one gentleman sitting on the river bank pretty much, by himself holding the American flag, and with the wind generated by the propellers the flag was waving perfectly,
We have guys watching all of the teams we can possibly play against, logging the miles, flying across the country. I think over-preparation is a good thing.
The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.
Smaller jets. The number of flights is increasing mainly because airlines are replacing large planes with smaller ones. Flying regional jets saves money and lets airlines offer more frequency on routes, but you now have 10 planes doing what eight could do, ... That tends to exacerbate delays.
It's not just a matter of the cost of the airplane vs. the cost of an airline ticket, ... You have to factor in the amount of time an executive wastes waiting for connecting flights or being forced to stay overnight on the road instead of flying direct.
What is joy It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.
The number of people flying is less horrific than it was shortly after the 11th.
And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.