As The Crow Flies Quotes

#1. But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

Emily Dickinson

#2. The only truth of life is that he will be dead one day and before that day come, he should make the maximum out of his life; no karma will postpone his death.

RKSJ

#3. I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

Abbey Lincoln

#4. I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow flies, going from being in a TV sketch show to playing one of Shakespeare's finest characters, but, hey, that's the way it has happened.

Catherine Tate

#5. You know the expression 'As a crow flies,' don't you? People use it to mean a straight line. And that's very important. Because the way a capital-c Crow flies is a straight line. It may appear jagged to some, but the Crow flies in a straight line to its goal.

Barry Lyga

#6. though few believed any of his tales, he remained very happy to the end of his days, and those were extraordinarily long.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. The seasons and the years came and went ... and always ... one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract.

W.G. Sebald

#8. That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

William Shakespeare

#9. As the crow flies-a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.

William Henry Maule

#10. Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

Jimenez Lai

#11. I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

Maggie Gyllenhaal