Flies Quotes

523 quotes by 428 authors

This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know… — Seth Godin
We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end. — Gautama Buddha
Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its… — Stephen Mitchell
Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's… — Robert Green Ingersoll
We've got some guys going good and we've got some guys who are struggling. Usually April's a tough month. Guys come from Arizona where the… — Unknown Author
If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office. — E. W. Howe
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. — Charles Simic
We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the… — Martin Luther
Time flies when youâ€™re being stupid. — David Henry Hwang
The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads… — Max Stirner
As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility,… — Jean Baudrillard
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. — William H. Gass
The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction… — Stephen Jay Gould
But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind. — William Shakespeare
Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a… — Victor Hugo
There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays… — Carl Linnaeus
It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane. — Ralph Royce
The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional… — Shunryu Suzuki
Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the body and that… — Brad Warner

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