Rick Riordan Quotes

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

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.

If God had intended us to fly, he’d never have given us the railways.

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization

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.

Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.

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.

I like to fly at least once a day.

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.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

I put it in the back of my mind that someday I would fly around the world.

I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.

I always keep a plane on the pole at the airport.

The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary.

I'd like to fly.

I love flying.

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

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

There is something about the airline industry that really grabbed me.

Please get on an airplane or a horse, because it's pretty spectacular.

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

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

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.

The future is in the skies.

Flying as Bob, there was always stress involved.