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I avoid flying Ryanair if I can. I know that everyone gives them a hard time, but there's a good reason for that.

~Gemma Chan

Topics: Avoid Everyone Flying Gives Good Good Reason Hard Hard Time Know Reason Them Time I Can

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I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.

~Gene Cernan

Topics: Aircraft Child Decided Enough Films Flying Had Off Only Pilots Saw Sea Taking The Only Thing Thing Two Wanted War Were World World War

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We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do.

~Gene Cernan

Topics: Absolutely Any Being Capability Down Flying Form Garage Got Greatest Human Human Being Kennedy Kind Machine Nothing Put Shape Sitting Space Today Totally Unacceptable Which World

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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

Topics: Alternatives Amsterdam Because Flights Fly Flying Go Hub Long-Distance Most Often Other Paris People Places Those Viable Will

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As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

~George Orwell

Topics: Beings Civilized Flying Highly Human Human Beings Me Overhead Trying Write I Write

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For families flying out of the U.K. for a winter getaway, airports should be the ideal place to pick up a bargain.

~George Osborne

Topics: Airport Bargain Families Flying Ideal Out Pick Place Should Up Winter

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More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

~George Saunders

Topics: Couple Days Doing Each Evil Find Flying Football Football Players Goes Goodness Happens Having Helmet Like Making More More And More Myself Off Other Players Representation Run See Standing Stays Stories Then Those Two Who Whose

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But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

~Gerard Arpey

Topics: Bit Diminished Flying Popularity Think

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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

Topics: Cannot Except Flying Happy Know Poetry Reach Road Royal Should Thing Time World

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