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Quotes About Fly

This is my secret---that any moment I might fly away.
~ Jennifer Niven
The past is such a curious creature, To look her in the face A transport may reward us, Or a disgrace. Unarmed if any meet her, I charge them, fly ! Her rusty ammunition Might yet reply !
~ Emily Dickinson
I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm.
~ Emily Dickinson
Artemis took a chance on some calculated sarcasm. "Really, Spiro. Did you think I would attempt a break-in? Perhaps you thought I would fly in here with my fairy friends and magic your box away?" Spiro laughed. "You can bring all the fairy friends you like, Arty-boy. Short of a miracle that Cube is staying right where it is.
~ Eoin Colfer
The reckless open their arms & topple into love, as do dreamers who fly in their dreams without fear or danger. Those who know that all love must end in loss do not fall but rather cross slowly from the not knowing into the knowing.
~ Aminatta Forna
So," Asa said conversationally, "want to go home and play butterflies?" Sebastian grimaced. "Do you promise not to pull my wings off?" Asa looked at him sideways. "Do you promise to fly back?
~ Amy Lane
I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing.
~ Alexis Arguello
I was lucky enough to fly to New York to cover the premiere of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2.'
~ Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
Opening a window to let out a fly and ending up with thirty midges, three wasps, two bees and an owl.
~ Rob Temple
If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.
~ Robert Jordan
If wishes were wings, sheep would fly.
~ Robert Jordan
Tippets; Dry Fly Fishing; Great Lakes Salmon
~ Lamar Underwood
There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes the words fly over the fence and all the way out to the feelings.
~ Adam Gopnik
Drakuli? titled her book "They Would Never Hurt a Fly," after Arendt's description of a typical Nazi functionary who "does not regard himself as a murderer because he has not done it out of inclination but in his professional capacity. Out of sheer passion he would never do harm to a fly.
~ Adam Kirsch
saw the accident and she saw his spirit fly
~ Diane Chamberlain
Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too.
~ Lee Trevino
This is my secret--that any moment I might fly away. Everyone on earth but me--and now Violet--moves in slow motion, like they're filled with mud. We are faster than all of them.
~ Jennifer Niven
Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Run, John, run. The law commands But gives neither feet nor hands. Better news the gospel brings; It bids me fly and gives me wings.
~ Jerry Bridges
IT WAS NOW LUNCH TIME AND THEY WERE all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing had happened.
~ Ernest Hemingway
In people like us, the craving is as strong as the craving for food or water, the yearning for touch or light or love. I was looking for something--a diversion, an occupation, an unwavering force--that would elevate me, that would lift me out of the melancholy dissection of my own interior geography that otherwise would have consumed me pitilessly, as it had my father. I wanted to fly above myself-- if only for a few hours--and look down in tranquility upon my life.
~ Ethan Canin
shag4 /?aÉ¡/ I. verb — [with obj.] 1. [Baseball] chase or catch (fly balls) for practice. • you run down to the field and hit a few baseballs and shag a few fly balls. – origin early 20th cent.: of unknown origin.
~ Angus Stevenson
So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.
~ Duane G. Carey