Fly Quotes - page 2

If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? (Margot Fonteyn)
You're beautiful, like a May fly. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. View quote
Jules Renard
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. View quote
Anthony Trollope
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky. View quote
Lewis Carroll
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. View quote
Mary Kay Ash
This woman did not fly to extremes she lived there. (Quentin Crisp)
Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I well know whither, And rest I well know where. View quote
Robert Bridges
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely discover you ahve no wings. View quote
Patrick Carman
I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly. View quote
Richard Price
If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space? View quote
Valentina Tereshkova
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I am full of doubts ... Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay. View quote
Juliette Binoche
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? View quote
Dante Alighieri
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. View quote
George Eliot
These bitter sorrows of childhood when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless. (George Eliot)
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. View quote
Adnan Oktar
I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly. View quote
Gao Xingjian
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I fly from pleasure,' said the prince, 'because pleasure has ceased to please I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others. View quote
Samuel Johnson