Fly Quotes
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I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I've found that I've developed fears I never had before... fears of heights, claustrophobia... only in cities, though, never in the country.
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
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According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.
Andre Sainte-Lague
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There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a distinct understanding at the very start as to who is the boss.
Ernest K. Gann
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In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
Twyla Tharp
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Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.
Burt Rutan
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If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.
Aziz Ansari
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Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free, and endless avalanches of abundance are poured out upon me, under grace in perfect ways.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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We can dive to the bottom of the sea and some say NASA will fly us to the stars, and I have known men to plunge into the past-or the future-and drown. But there's one place where we can't go. We can't go where we are already. We can't go home, because our minds, and our hearts, and our immortal souls are already there there.
Gene Wolfe
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If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can’t imagine a bird saying well, I’m tired today, I’m not going to fly!
Yehudi Menuhin
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Some in Europe take a plane, fly to Silicon Valley, visit and look and come back and say we need to do the same thing. Well you can copy others... but if you always copy others, you never get ahead.
Joe Kaeser
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I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.
Arnold Palmer
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I will wait for love to fly to me and teach me how to fly.
Bill Kaulitz
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My mother was not happy with the Afros that my friends and I emerged with - there's that crack in the book of 'Why, if a fly landed in there, he'd break his little wings trying to get out.' I was not pure dashiki, though - I was a combination of African dresses, miniskirts, tank tops, shawls, ethnic-looking earrings, sandals.
Margo Jefferson
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I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly.
Kathryn Lasky
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Will I see you giveMore than I can take?Will I only harvest some?As the days fly pastWill we lose our graspOr fuse it in the sun?Did she wake you upTo tell you thatIt was only a change of plan?Dream up, dream up,Let me fill your cupWith the promise of a man.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
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You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert
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Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.
Marc Maron
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Ocean into tempest wrought,
To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
Edward Joseph Young