George R. R. Martin Quotes

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.

When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.

Connor Broekhart was born to fly, or more accurately he was born flying.

Mother, I want to see him fly!

Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.

Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

Start using your wings; they need some exercise.

Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

I love flying planes.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

You have to be prepared to take a spill.

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

I believe that simple flight at least is possible to man and that the experiments and investigations of a large number of independent workers will result in the accumulation of information, knowledge, and skill which will finally lead to accomplished flight.

I can't cruise no more. You cruise, you lose.

The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.

And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds and I was falling like a stone, that they had wings and I would never have any.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

Jenks made a move to follow, probably forgetting he didn’t have wings anymore. He leaned forward and fell to the floor, face first. “Jenks!” I shouted when he hit with a dull smack and started swearing.

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.

I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster.

Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.

That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.