Flown Quotes

"It`s gone more quickly than I expected; the time has really flown past. It`s a bit like a long and lovely dream, and now I`m ready to wake up." (on the experience of filming the Chronicles of Narnia)

On celebrity activism: You don`t want to be a spokesperson unless you are absolutely committed to a cause because you can hurt it. I`ve been asked to help represent environmental groups. I`m a big proponent of cleaning up the environment. I have two electric cars. But I also have a big weak spot because I`ve flown on private jets. However, I welcome any of these dumb pundits who make celebrities out to be bad guys to a discussion about Darfur. Because I`ve been there and I`ve met all the players, and I guarantee you the pundits haven`t.

"Before you, my life was like a moonless night, but there were stars-points of light and reason. Then you flew across my sky, and there was light. When you were gone, when the meteor had flown over the horizon, nothing had changed, but my eyes had been blinded by the light. I couldnt see the light anymore, and there ceased to be a reason for anything."

(from an interview three months before the release of Superman III (1983)) Look, I`ve flown, I`ve become evil, loved, stopped and turned the world backward, I`ve faced my peers, I`ve befriended children and small animals, and I`ve rescued cats from trees. What else is there left for Superman to do that hasn`t been done?

I`ve flown across America, I`ve scaled fences, I`ve stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I`m a hopeless romantic. There`s no hope for me.

You show up freshly rested and flown to these events while these guys are driving their own pick-up trucks there and then they`re working a 9-5 job during the week while the factory riders are on their own private test track dialing it in, getting the bikes set to their exact specifications.

I`ve flown out of character so many times. In that sense I`ve been lucky, because I`ve been given the liberty to do just about anything I`ve wanted to do in my lifetime.

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May `43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in `42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn`t have any priority in design or production.

I`m scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.

It`s very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor`s list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

We`re not just looking to reduce the noise an aircraft makes but also to change the way it`s flown to produce significant noise savings.

I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense.

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that`s never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

I see all the birds are flown.