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Flew Quotes

Lines about motion, travel, and taking off.

This set of flew quotes captures movement in different forms, from a rushed flight taken straight out of character on a film set to a fascination with the fragile passenger airships of decades past. It pairs well with our Experience collection.

My grandfather was a Tuskegee Airman. He flew with the 100th Fighter Squadron.

Quotes by Cheo Hodari Coker

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Quotes by Charles Kettering

I think it's a travesty that the NBA can't just tell these guys to play basketball two days in a row. It's just a joke to me. We flew commercial, and we were able to play back-to-back.

Quotes by Charles Barkley

I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm Not There.' I literally finished filming Elizabethan grandeur on Friday, flew to Montreal, and started being Bob Dylan...

Quotes by Cate Blanchett

A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.

Quotes by Carlo Collodi

I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where...

Quotes by Cara Buono

There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have...

Quotes by Burt Rutan

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.

Quotes by Buzz Aldrin

I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.

Quotes by Bill Bryson

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

Quotes by Bill Bryson

I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa...

Quotes by Bharati Mukherjee

CloudShield did not see itself as a cloak-and-dagger company. It made its name for high-end hardware that could peer deeply into Internet traffic and pull out and analyze 'packets' of data as they flew by.

Quotes by Barton Gellman

I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before...

Quotes by Ashley Greene

Because it flew without a pilot, the D-21 was designed to fly over territory where the U.S. was denied access and to take photographs of weapons facilities from altitudes as low as 1,500 feet. But the project was canceled on...

Quotes by Annie Jacobsen

I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.

Quotes by Anna Nicole Smith

I flew to Los Angeles to interview Vinnie Jones and Piers Morgan for the BBC and spent 11 hours in economy on BA, and the leg room was fine. In business class, Virgin, BA, and Emirates are good. I've flown...

Quotes by Andrew Flintoff

My favorite movies are movies from the '70s, like 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Dog Day Afternoon' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' and to me, 'Hereditary' seemed like it fit in with those movies, and it was just horrifying. It...

Quotes by Alex Wolff

This is going to make me sound awful, but I was 18 when I took my first flight because the Prince of Brunei flew Mis-Teeq over to play at his birthday party! I was in business class being fed amazing...

Quotes by Alesha Dixon

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed...

Quotes by Alan Shepard

I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as...

Quotes by Alan G. Poindexter

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this flew quotes collection about?
It gathers reflections on travel and flight, from a hurried trip taken straight from a film set to a fascination with fragile early passenger airships.
Why do people search for flew quotes?
Travel-themed quotes are popular for captions about trips, transitions, or a fascination with flight and motion in general.
Do these quotes cover real aviation history?
Yes, one references the short-lived era of passenger airships from decades ago, admired for their design despite being frail and short-lived.
Is there a personal, non-technical side too?
Yes, another describes flying while still emotionally caught up in a film role, showing travel can carry personal, not just literal, meaning.
Where can I find related themes?
Our Experience and Day collections complement this page well.

For more on journeys and looking back, browse our Back and Day pages alongside this one.