Flies Quotes

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here.

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

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

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

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.

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it.

This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It's standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I'm like in one of my own pictures.

It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'

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

Money just draws flies.

Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

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?

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.

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