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“By now, a million pedal strokes have etched the muscles in my legs with a single purpose: to power the crank and move the bicycle forward. Food flows into my body, bringing it power and strength. It is no longer a question of struggle. Now the journey evolves into the spiritual realm-where the pedaling becomes instinctive. It's a free-flow of energy that comes through my body and willingly expresses itself in the flight of the pedals.”

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Author:Frosty Wooldridge

“I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.”

Source: The Snake Has All the Lines

“On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.”

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Author:Lisa Snowdon

“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.”

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Book:To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux

Source: To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux

“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.”

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Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.”

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Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.”

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Book:The Beach

Source: The Beach

“In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.”

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Author:Neil H. McElroy

“If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?”

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Author:George Carlin

“The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.”

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Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.”

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Author:Wendell Willkie

“Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.”

“People say there's delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a bunch of people used to die on the way there, have a baby, you would end up with a whole different group of people by the time you got there. Now you watch a movie and [go to the toilet] and you're home.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

“People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It was the worst day of my life. We didn't board for 20 minutes and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes.' Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?'”

“Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.”

“The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.”

“I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.”

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Author:Sloane Crosley

“Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.”

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Author:Amelia Earhart

“How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.”

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Author:Noel Coward