#flying

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#fire #flying #god #great #hailed

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#because #bird #catch #come #confident

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#birds #different #different ways #first #fly

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#child #crush #dive #diving #dream

Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often long-distance flights. If they can't go on those long-distance flights from Heathrow, they will go to Paris, they will go to Amsterdam, they will go to Frankfurt, because those are viable alternatives. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#amsterdam #because #flights #fly #flying

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#except #flying #happy #know #poetry

So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air. ↗

— Rex Hunt

#air #catch #fish #flying #fresh

It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best. ↗

— Rachel Hunter

#being #best #convinced #cover #exhausting

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#back #between #days #exclusive #flying

The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#flying #hg #art