Don't get involved in partial problems but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem even if this view is still not a clear one.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching childlike and of the race of giants.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but while their companions slept they were toiling upward in the night.

I just want to say good night sweet prince may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it but is always breaking away from the present moment and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked you didn't crash you didn't throw up you weren't late you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic partly due to the irregularity of the air and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.