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Quotes About Fly

Unjustified ambition kills value, Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Thoughts do not need the wings of words to fly to any goal, Like subtle lightnings, not like birds, They speed from soul to soul.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A Drunkard cannot meet a CorkWithout a Revery—And so encountering a FlyThis January DayJamaicas of Remembrance stirThat send me reeling in.
~ Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
So, with the enthusiasm of one who attains an object long desired, with the candor of a child, and the blundering foolishness of an old man utterly without worldly experience, he fell into the life of Mademoiselle Gamard precisely as a fly is caught in a spider's web.
~ balzac honore de ix
That was pretty impressive. I got the sucker! (after killing a miserable fly during an interview)
~ Barack Obama
I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.
~ Sebastian Pinera
John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman's creators. Remember: before Superman could fly or turn back time, he was nothing less than an earthbound crime-fighting John Carter in tights.
~ Junot Diaz
The most impressive airplane ever, I believe, was designed only a dozen years after the first operational jet. Stayed in service till it was too rusty to fly, taken out of service. We retreated in '98 back to something that was developed in '56. What? The most impressive spaceship ever, I believe, was a Grumman Lunar Lander.
~ Burt Rutan
Credit, that rare bird of security and peace, rested with none, but stood with upraised wings, ready to fly off at the first rumor of suspicion.
~ Mark Twain
Where the bee sucks, there suck I. There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly."
~ Martin Cruz Smith
Look not long at what's offered, for every precious thing has wings and may fly away.
~ Stephen King
Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work of art preserve its life.
~ Diana Rose Morcilla
El tiempo vuela como una flecha, decía la niña, y la mosca de la fruta también vuela.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
You are amazing. You are a shooting star. I will follow you forever no distance is too far. Never take for granted your abilty to fly. At times stop and rest, but quickly get back up before your dreams pass you by.
~ Eric Pio
and before him, the minstrel who smeared on love's blackface, rattling his damage like a tambourine. I have been the deadest nag limping circles around the paddock, have flown to beady pieces, sick as the tongue of mercury at the thermometer's tip.
~ Erin Belieu
And Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and created the horse.... Thou shall fly without wings, and conquer without any sword. Oh, horse.
~ Bedouin Legend
God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing a while upon the roof and then fly away.
~ beecher henry ward iv
Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
~ beecher henry ward xvii
You release these things, and if they fly then you have more.
~ Howie Mandel
I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.
~ John Glenn
I heard of this Texas studio. The owner, Tony Rancich, wanted to fly us out for the day to see the studio. I booked it the next day. He's that rare guy that is in it purely for the love of it.
~ James Vincent McMorrow
When the reception was over I went for a walk and…she's pregnant." They were both quiet a moment, exchanging one of those old-married-people looks he still couldn't decipher, but which made him squirm. He and Beth were both adults, but that didn't make telling his parents he'd accidentally gotten a woman pregnant any easier. "Lot easier to walk with your fly zipped," Leo grumbled.
~ Shannon Stacey
The heart of the artist is a little bit hollow. The bones of the artist are a little bit hollow. The brain of the artist is a little bit hollow. But this allows them to fly.
~ Sheila Heti
Things! Burn them, burn them! Make a beautiful fire! More room in your heart for love, for the trees! For the birds who own nothing—the reason they can fly.
~ Mary Oliver