Fly Quotes
2605 quotes by 1715 authors
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I had a dream about a motorcycle," said Harry, remembering suddenly. "It was flying." Uncle Vernon nearly crashed into the car in front. He turned…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?'…
— Haruki Murakami
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Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of…
— Francesca Lia Block
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For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
— Khalil Gibran
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Why does she have wings?' So she can fly.
— Sarah Dessen
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She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another,…
— Amy Tan
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and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
— Hunter S. Thompson
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But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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If I fall out, pull this ring? What happens then? I sprout wings and fly?" -Spader in "The Never War
— D. J. MacHale
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Richard wrote a mental diary in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiance, a home, and a life…
— Neil Gaiman
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Lazy Lob and crazy Cob are weaving webs to wind me. I am far more sweet than other meat, but still they cannot find me!…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
— Simone Weil
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He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve…
— Libba Bray
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I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on…
— Gregory Maguire
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The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine unworthiness, that dare…
— William Shakespeare
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that…
— Sylvia Plath
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As I climbed up into the high old bed, the large fly in my personal ointment did the same. Had I actually told him he…
— Charlaine Harris
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But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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