Fly Quotes

• Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.

  

  David Attenborough
  • World
  • Great
  • High

• My shoots are very much about skin, so I'm an exfoliating and moisturizing nut. I fly so much, so I take my makeup off as soon as I get on the airplane. I look at my watch every half hour and moisturize.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Fly
  • Makeup
  • Airplane

• If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Enemy
  • Fly
  • Slavery

• I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long.

  

  Jean-Luc Godard
  • Long
  • Fly

• When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • Fly

• We can fly, you know. We just don't know how to think the right thoughts and levitate ourselves off the ground.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Fly
  • Right thoughts

• Flying to me isn't scary, it's just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard, I'm afraid to fly.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Fear
  • Scary
  • Flying

• I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

  

  Mary Astell
  • God
  • Nature
  • Fly

• We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Real
  • Running
  • Fly

• We lived in a farm village, and no one could afford to buy a car or to fly. We were envious. We couldn't afford any toys. I couldn't imagine making a real car.

  

  Li Shufu
  • Real
  • Car
  • Fly

• If we can recycle a valuable product that serves an important purpose - and create jobs in the process - then why wouldn't we? Well, that's exactly what fly ash offers.

  

  Matt Rosendale
  • Important
  • Why
  • Purpose

• The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

  

  Pema Chodron
  • Time
  • Long
  • Emotional

• That is very cool that Benjamin Franklin walked the streets here. I read about Franklin in a library book. I think he was very smart and did more than fly a kite.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • Book
  • Cool
  • Smart

• A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

  

  Jeremy Taylor
  • Heart
  • Alone
  • Fly

• What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade! A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade! A stream that silently but swiftly glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy? A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.

  

  Alexander Brome
  • Life
  • Art
  • Lost

• And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly.

  

  David Neeleman
  • Fly

• Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Running
  • King
  • Election

• What, you're tryin' to be my new wife? What're you, Mariah? Fly through twice!

  

  Eminem
  • Wife
  • Fly

• Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Why
  • Sleep
  • Wonder

• All right." Shimmering droplets on her eyelashes, stars caught in transition. "But will you replace it with something for me?" "Anything." His body was hers. Brushing her fingers over his lips, she said, "You gave me an eagle. I want to give you one, too." A tender kiss pressed to the scar. "I want us to fly together.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She
  • Together
  • Stars

• The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

  

  August Krogh
  • Function
  • Birds
  • Mechanisms

• I hunt and fish, and I don't fly on Lear jets, and I don't smoke Cuban cigars.

  

  Ed Schultz
  • Fly

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