Flies Quotes

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

When we got down to the Super Bowl in '85, against the Patriots, we're down there on the field checking things out. This helicopter flies overhead, probably taking pictures, and McMahon just moons it. He mooned the helicopter from the field.

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

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

To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face.

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

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.

You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

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

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

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

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.