Fly Quotes
2605 Fly quotes by 1715 unique authors
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Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall…
— Lord Byron
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Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you…
— Dick Francis
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I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap.…
— Cory Doctorow
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Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill…
— William Shakespeare
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The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
— Tom Robbins
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What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. We?"…
— Joseph Heller
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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
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Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren
— Anne Sexton
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The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly.…
— Robert Fulghum
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Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Only those who dare may fly
— Luis Sepúlveda
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loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it…
— Tao Lin
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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
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Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years…
— James M. Barrie
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Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what…
— Khaled Hosseini
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In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.
— William P. Young
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He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that…
— Richard Bach
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My pants cut the cheese. Let one fly. Baked a batch of brownies.
— Jim Benton
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The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.
— Francis Schaeffer
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There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not…
— Richard Dawkins
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Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or the…
— Italo Calvino
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And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge…
— Sarah Dessen
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