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I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.
— Marc Reisner
It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
— Ray Bradbury
-I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy
— William Golding
Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.
— Jon Lester
There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.
— Hunter S. Thompson
The fallen
Leaf flies
Like a
Young Icarus
And
Then
Disintegrates — Matthew Quick
Leaf flies
Like a
Young Icarus
And
Then
Disintegrates — Matthew Quick
Humans. Rats have bigger hearts. Roaches have kinder souls. Flies have-
— Katherine Applegate
I want to be the bird that flies away.
— Tahereh Mafi
Amy! Sit correctly, you are wearing a dress ... feet on the floor and your knees together girl ... You are trying to catch a husband, not flies !
— Amy Mah
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.
— Bob Dylan
Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.
— John Dryden
Time is a most versatile resource. It flies, marches on, works wonders, and will tell. It also runs out.
— Kathryn Alesandrini
In the village, a sage should go about
Like a bee, which, not harming
Flower, colour or scent,
Flies off with the nectar. — Anonymous
Like a bee, which, not harming
Flower, colour or scent,
Flies off with the nectar. — Anonymous
To know your organism, you must eat it.' Not just the flies: the pupae. And not just to horrify people, but to know.
— Jonathan Weiner
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
— Jackie Robinson
I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
The beast retires to it's shelter, and the bird flies to it's nest; but the helpless man can only find refuge in his fellow creature.
— Oliver Goldsmith
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
— Laurence Sterne
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
— William Shakespeare
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. — William Shakespeare
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. — William Shakespeare
You can't walk around here half naked in Roman warrior costumes or every woman in a fifty-mile radius will be on you like flies on honey.
— Missy Lyons
Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.
— Rex Stout
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
— Martial
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
— Friedrich Schiller
Thought flies and words go on foot.
— Julien Green
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
— Francis Bacon
Although their maneuverability is limited, blind flies can fly remarkably well.
— Michael Dickinson
The bird of youth flies away and doesn't come back. Fly, boy, fly!
— Alberto Granado
The time for useful work flies fast. Why talk of being in the humor? Who hesitates will never be.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.
— Martin Luther
Close your mouth before something flies in, I snapped.
— Leigh Bardugo
...the race isn't over until the checker flies.
— Garth Stein
Now, waving flies from his face, he told the two deserters what they might expect.
— Bernard Cornwell
Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?"
"Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers! — Groucho Marx
"Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers! — Groucho Marx
Time flies when you're being stupid.
— David Henry Hwang
Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?
— Philip Jose Farmer
The masses of flies over the dirt do not state their unity; it is the dirt that brings them together.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Flies conquer the flypaper.
— John Steinbeck
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.
— Gilbert White
The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip and away it flies.
— Khaled Hosseini
Connor couldn't be sure, but he thought he heard him mumble, First Dean, then McCall. These boys are dropping like flies.
— Robin Bielman
Seagull owner?" "Flies in, shits on everything, and then leaves.
— Ernie Lindsey
Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.
— Robert Orben
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
— Jean De La Fontaine
Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.
— Thomas Hunt Morgan
The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.
— Albert Einstein
If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.
— E.W. Howe
As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.
— Gautama Buddha
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Passion rules the arrow that flies.
— Bob Dylan
The night stank and was loud with flies.
— Aldous Huxley
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
— Yasser Arafat
Tranquil breeze
Glittering beach
Dancing water
Bluest sky
My mind flies high with joyful laughter. — Debasish Mridha
Glittering beach
Dancing water
Bluest sky
My mind flies high with joyful laughter. — Debasish Mridha
Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
— Oscar Wilde
When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.
— Brand Blanshard
Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane.
— Ralph Royce
You're my breath, my light, the one my heart flies towards.
— Jessica Brockmole
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
— Tommy Lasorda
Flies trouble us not by their strength but by their multitudes.
— Nancy B. Brewer
Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.
— George Edward Moore
Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it.
— Megan Fox
Whenever I get down about life going by too quickly, what helps me is a little mantra that I repeat to myself: at least I'm not a fruit fly.
— Ray Romano
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
— Madame Roland
TO MY MIND, PUSHKIN BEST SUMS UP THE SEASON: Lovely summer, how I could cherish you / If heat and dust and gnats and flies were banished.
— Paul Russell
All fish are not caught with flies
— John Lyly
You catch more flies with honey, ever heard of that?" He shrugged. "I don't like flies. They're annoying." He grinned "I'd rather catch hell.
— Heather Hildenbrand
We went into the laser tag room, paranoid, delirious, and shot at one another. It was a little like Lord of the Flies but with more 98 Degrees.
— Katie Heaney
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Where flies Korabas, there shall be T'iam.
— Steven Erikson
Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.
— William Shakespeare
Little Miss Bauer sat in her tower, eating a burger and fries. Along came a spider who sat down beside her and said "I prefer zee French flies.
— Julia Durango
They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
— William Golding
Block D was at the farthest corner of the camp from Block C. Whoever had laid out the Camp of the Flies had no respect for alphabetical order.
— Susan Kaye Quinn
Time flies; but does not land. Eternity does not have an airport and does not rest.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they're bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff,
— J.K. Rowling
When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.
— Kelseyleigh Reber
Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.
— Joanna Baillie
While I speak, time flies.
— Ovid
Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.
— Benjamin Franklin
In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.
— Michel De Montaigne
A worthwhile day, I had killed two spiders, I had upset the balance of nature - now we would all be eaten up by the bugs and the flies.
— Charles Bukowski
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
— Frida Kahlo
I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.
— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard