Quotes on the topic: Flight


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For the industry we're starting now, for suborbital flight, there is no destination, so the spacecraft you go up in has to be large and spacious. That's why SpaceShipTwo is much bigger than SpaceShipOne: It needs to be because you want those six people to be floating around and enjoying themselves.


We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in the Kandahar area, conducted the initial training for the attackers in training camps in Afghanistan before they moved on to Germany and then to U.S. flight schools.


The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.


NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.


I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.


Nobody wants to make a bad 'Flight of the Navigator' remake. There's just no interest. We're going to do it if it's good.


As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.


And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.


When I go to Atlanta, I'm famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they're watching every show, and if you're black, you famous.


We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.


Most of us have jobs that require some handling of other peoples' feelings and our own, and in that sense, we are all partly flight attendants.


There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.


I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.


The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.


The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.


There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.


Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.


And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?


The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.


I've been to L.A., it's horrible. Don't waste your money on the flight.