Sarah Waters Quotes

I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.

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• Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Fly
  • Possible
  • Robots

• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• We fly to the town in the little private airplane, and then we have to get in cars and drive to the hotel and then drive to the gig. So, I want to do a tour where the performances will actually be at the small airports.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Small
  • Fly
  • Airplane

• Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • High
  • Food
  • Hand

• My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • You
  • Fly

• I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Fly
  • New
  • New York

• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Dad
  • Hand
  • Air

• Anthony Johnson hits harder than any other person, no doubt. Every time he hit me, it made me kind of, like, fly all over the place. He was trying to take my head off.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Doubt

• Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Hope
  • Dream
  • Fly

• If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Women
  • Why
  • Space

• I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Thought
  • Fly
  • Fast

• A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Horse
  • Fly

• When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Trying
  • Singing
  • Fly

• When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Heart
  • Fly
  • New York

• There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Fly
  • Clouds

• My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.

  

  Forrest Bird
  • World
  • War
  • Fly

• No longer are the days where I just kind of fly under the radar. Everybody's recognizing me. Everybody wants pictures. They feel inspired. It's very cool.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Inspired

• I see people having fits because their coffee is too hot or their baked potato is too cold, or some random something is imperfect and somebody can be blamed for it. These people can fly off the handle and nobody says, 'Too much beef will do that to a person.' If it's a vegan: a clear case of alfalfa sprout poisoning.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Cold
  • Fly

• There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Free
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• It took at least three hundred years of debate before the question of the canon even began to reach closure. The decisions that were eventually made were not handed down from on high, and they did not come right away. The canon was the result of a slow and often painful process, in which lots of disagreements were aired and different points of view came to be expressed, debated, accepted, and suppressed.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Decisions
  • Result
  • Debate

• That’s the thing about terrorism – it works. Especially for the terrorists – they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Good
  • Trying

• In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish-that is their strength.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Fly