Fly Quotes

• When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Time
  • Home
  • English

• It'll be my luck that the worst candidate will pick up 'Fly Over States' as his election song. Then I'll be forever linked to that guy, whoever he is!

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Song

• After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, 'Oh! Life is so hard!' and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Death

• The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Flight
  • Aviation
  • Pilots

• It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Day
  • Fly

• The people are only tools, a means used by God. But they are not the sourse of help, aid, or salvation of any kind. Only God is. The people cannot even create the wing of a fly (Quran, 22:73).

  

  Yasmin Zarine Shahmir
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• 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

• I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Moon
  • Holiday

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • New York
  • Paris
  • Flying

• There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Experience
  • Understanding
  • Animal

• I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

  

  John le Carre
  • Literature
  • Fly
  • German

• Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Single
  • Day

• To waft a feather or to drown a fly.

  

  Edward Young
  • Fly

• See the nigger fly the airplane!

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Fly
  • Airplane

• Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Fly
  • Risks

• When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window.

  

  M. L. Stedman
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Parents

• True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.

  

  Walter Scott
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

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

  

  Jack Vance
  • Thought
  • Fly
  • Fast

• The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Baby

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

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • You
  • Roots

• Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • Fly
  • German

• I'm usually barefoot. That's how I'm most comfortable. I like my feet to be on the ground. I like to jump around, I like to fly across the stage.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Fly
  • Jump

• You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • You
  • Fly
  • Everything

• A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Money
  • Food
  • Fly

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