Joel Gretsch Quotes

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

I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience.

I love flying planes.

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

I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

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.

People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.

I love flying.

When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.

From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.

I rarely watch TV but I guess I'd watch the weather report since I fly so much.

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

The blue distance, the mysterious Heavens, the example of birds and insects flying everywhere —are always beckoning Humanity to rise into the air.

More than electric lights, more than steam engines, more than telephones, more than automobiles, more even than the printing press, the airplane separated past from future. It had freed mankind from the earth and opened the skies.

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.

I really love flying, but it's really nice to jump on a plane, sit back, and let someone else do the heavy lifting, but flying is my main passion for sure.