High Altitude Flight

Famous quotes containing the words high, altitude and/or flight:

    “I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.”
    —Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    “On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “great intellects.””
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “AIDS was ... an illness in stages, a very long flight of steps that led assuredly to death, but whose every step represented a unique apprenticeship. It was a disease that gave death time to live and its victims time to die, time to discover time, and in the end to discover life.”
    —Hervé Guibert (1955–1991)