Flying Quotes (page 25)

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• fly
• lies
• look

I hid my love when young till ICouldn't bear the buzzing of a fly; I hid my life to my despite. Till I could not bear to look at light: I dare not gaze upon her face. But left her memory in each place; Where'er I saw a wild flower lie. I kissed and bade my love good-bye. John Clare

• die
• fly
• winter

In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age. Jack Kerouac

• moving
• fly
• river

The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. Wallace Stevens

• fly
• empty
• sins

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. Simone Weil

• fly
• flies
• owns

Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself! Tom Robbins

• hot
• feeling
• mourning

When I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny - the hands was gone to the fields; and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs an flies in the air that makes it seem so lonesome and like everybody's dead and gone; and if a breeze fans along and quivers the leaves, it makes you feel mournful, because you feel like it's spirits whispering - spirits that's been dead ever so many years - and you always think they're talking about you. Mark Twain

• time
• dream
• fly

Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream? Doug Coupland

• tomorrow
• sky
• saying

Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow. Robert A. Heinlein

• writing
• fly
• avoiding

I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it. Jhonen Vasquez

• fly
• giving
• look

Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl. Terry Prachett

• night
• fly
• nights

The night stank and was loud with flies. Aldous Huxley

• life
• running
• fly

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying. Mae West

• little
• fly
• fall

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? Dante Alighieri

• reflection
• bird
• travel

He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he feels he is riding a floating skeleton...Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible. Michael Ondaatje

• good
• fly
• giving

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room. Frank McCourt