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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

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

The hard, inescapable reality is that anyone who flies may die in an airplane. — Stephen Coonts

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

The fallen
Leaf flies
Like a
Young Icarus
And
Then
Disintegrates — Matthew Quick

To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future. — Russell Kirk

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

When the star dies,
Its eye closes; tired of watching,
It flies back to its first bright dream. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

In the village, a sage should go about
Like a bee, which, not harming
Flower, colour or scent,
Flies off with the nectar. — Anonymous

The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks. — Craig Clevenger

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

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed. — Jeffrey Combs

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on. — Guillermo Del Toro

All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70. — Peter O'Toole

I want to be Ruler of the Exumas. I like the sound of it. I want to become Kurtz and live like in 'Lord of the Flies.' — Johnny Depp

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through. — Francis Bacon

I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything. — W.C. Fields

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

Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies. — Billy Squier

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. — Laurence Sterne

Flies are the price we pay for summer. — Ann Zwinger

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. — William Shakespeare

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen. — Richard Bach

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

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies. — Tom Waits

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. — Friedrich Schiller

The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them — Walt Whitman

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

When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies through the window. — Oscar Wilde

I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break. — Joyce Rachelle

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd. — Charles Bukowski

Two hundred women, no phones, no washing machines, no hair dryers
it was like Lord of the Flies on estrogen. — Piper Kerman

Prayer flies where the eagle never flew. — Thomas Guthrie

God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies. — Sylvia Plath

Be careful not to laugh at the Phoenix when she goes up in flames, or you'll be left in the dust when she grows her new wings and flies swiftly away. — Cristen Rodgers

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey
city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Over them, in a swaying, muddy mist, hung the flies, snoring on a single note. — John Le Carre

The minutes rushed past, without compassion for my enthusiasm. — Nicola Lecca

Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark. — Vladimir Nabokov

The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it. — Haruki Murakami

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time. — Thomas Wolfe

At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring. — Charles Frazier

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones. — Honore De Balzac

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. — Honore De Balzac

Rare takes place in many forms The beauty found the home when she touched the ground She flies ;Rare beauty beneath the skies,Rare beauty — Sheila Woolum

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command. — Herman Melville

The masses of flies over the dirt do not state their unity; it is the dirt that brings them together. — M.F. Moonzajer

Flies purify the air, and plays--the morals. — Anton Chekhov

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. — Ambrose

They make Lord of the Flies look like Pollyanna." "When did you read Pollyanna?" "It was a book? — Orson Scott Card

My soule her wings doth spread
And heaven-ward flies,
Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read
In the large volumes of the skies. — William Habington

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out.
Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune. — Georges Bataille

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He's hit! He's hit!" Pigpen flies into view, gun drawn and on the prowl to kill. — Katie McGarry

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond. — Liam Neeson

The time for useful work flies fast. Why talk of being in the humor? Who hesitates will never be. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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

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

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

The man who flies shall fight again.
[Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.] — Demosthenes

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies. — Benjamin Franklin

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

...the race isn't over until the checker flies. — Garth Stein

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

Flies trouble us not by their strength but by their multitudes. — Nancy B. Brewer

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman. — Ray Davies

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

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

The night stank and was loud with flies. — Aldous Huxley

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that. — Jose Saramago

Unfortunately it's an incontrovertible fact that sound common sense flies out of the window as soon as love comes in through the door. — Kerstin Gier

As the crow flies-a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line. — William Henry Maule

Flies conquer the flypaper. — John Steinbeck

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

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

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

Passion rules the arrow that flies. — Bob Dylan

The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I've been doing that all my life. — Bob Hope

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. — Victor Hugo

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine. — Yasser Arafat

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

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

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies. — Martin Luther

The bird of youth flies away and doesn't come back. Fly, boy, fly! — Alberto Granado

Now, waving flies from his face, he told the two deserters what they might expect. — Bernard Cornwell