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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
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
The fallenLeaf 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
When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching,
It flies back to its first bright dream. — Dejan Stojanovic
Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.
— John Dryden
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
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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
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 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
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 dryersit 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, slimeycity goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
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 spreadAnd 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
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
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
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
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
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
