Sunita Williams Quotes

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

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

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

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

I'm very comfortable in the air. And if you're really in love with flight, you're in love to a certain extent with being outside of the body, not grounded. The problem is, if you're not in your body, you can't actually feel anything particularly authentically.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

I swim laps, which is nice because I'm weightless in the water.

To be able to float and move around and, pretty much effortlessly, do whatever you want with your body in space is pretty amazing.

I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds.

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

Mother, I want to see him fly!

I love the feeling of the weightlessness. I always love being in the water and to combine jumping off the side into the water feels like a different and fun way to be able to swim. I feel free like I could do anything

Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.

Start using your wings; they need some exercise.

If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I'd save on shoes alone.

Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly, weight into weightlessness, nowhere to fall. As you lay on your back paddling in space you might notice your feet had fled your head. You are stretching slowly slowly, getting longer, your joints are slipping away from their usual places. There is no connection between your shoulder and your arm. You will break up bone by bone, fractured from who you are, drifting away now, the centre cannot hold.

it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you at the touch of your toe, and speed lifting you off the ice far from all things that can hold you down.

Okay, so, flying,” I started, taking a deep breath and focusing on the thing I loved most in the world. “Flying is … great. It feels great when you’re doing it. It’s fun. Pure freedom. There’s nothing better.” Dylan smiled, a slow, easy smile that seemed to light up his whole face. “So the first thing we’re going to do,” I told him, “is push you off the roof.

Float with me in the world of ether.

I think you can imagine everyone has ankle weights on, or technology, and there's a reason that people aren't floating around. But I also liked this idea that in this world, people forgot they can swim. The modern world weighs you down, there's always emails to check, you've gotta go to your job and pay your mortgage. You're not really thinking, "Oh, yeah, I can swim around." BoJack discovering it is a big deal, and kind of fun.

And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!

When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.