Flies Quotes

523 Flies quotes by 428 unique authors

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana,… — Norman Maclean
Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald, Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name,… — C.S. Lewis
...I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of… — Barbara Kingsolver
Sweetie, nothing that flies looks safe, including birds. — Janet Evanovich
somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under… — John Eldredge
I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love… — Guy de Maupassant
People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same… — James St. James
What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird… — Hermann Hesse
Who are you writing to, Linus?" "This is the time of year to write to the Great Pumpkin. On Halloween Night, the Great Pumpkin rises… — Charles M. Schulz
The gull sees farthest who flies highest — Richard Bach
What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
My life flies away like a dream: Why should I stay behind? — Julia Golding
Then you're aping him. Valentine was one of the most arrogant and disrespectful men I've ever met. I suppose he brought you up to be… — Cassandra Clare
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings. — William Shakespeare
My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the… — Cornelia Funke
Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do… — Stephen Crane
It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out. — Markus Zusak
The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if… — Chuck Palahniuk
The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own… — Georges Bataille
Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers! — Groucho Marx
and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and… — Charles Bukowski

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