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Tag Name "Flight" (809)

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The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.
Joseph Roth
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Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing patches of stratus that lay in the valleys as heavy and white as glaciers. North for the first time. It was still an adventure, as exciting as love, as frightening.
James Salter
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World's flying like birds my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.
Tanith Lee
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Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.
Stanley Kunitz
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By the end of the shoot [of Wrestler], my trainer was pushing me up three flights of stairs to my house and holding my arm like I was an old cripple. I had three MRIs in the first two months of working on the film. I felt like it really was over by the time we started shooting the movie.
Mickey Rourke
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To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home.
Jerry Crawford
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Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.
Chuck Yeager
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At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The needle of the machmeter fluctuated at this reading momentarily, then passed off the scale. Assuming that the off-scale reading remained linear, it is estimated that 1.05 Mach was attained at this time.
Chuck Yeager
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I've never felt scared of flight, ever. It's really weird. I don't know. They stick a gin and tonic in your hands and I just think, Life is good!
Dallas Campbell
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I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.
Richard Branson
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The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.
Igor Sikorsky
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Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))
Jason Mraz
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To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.
Denis de Rougemont
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Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.
Claudio Magris
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Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.
Robert Herrick
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The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate efficiently and at the highest level...anxiety is a cognitive interpretation of that physical response.
John Eliot
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If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
Chuck Yeager
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When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.
James Joyce
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If I got a flight to catch and I just bought a half o-z, I'll smoke it all - I can't get weed on a plane, 'cause I've been red-flagged.
Method Man
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A joyful life isn’t about others it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.
Martha Beck
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The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.
John S. Pistole
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.
Ally Condie
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
John Dryden
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