Fly By Quotes

#1. The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It's an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you'll be saying, 'Wow, it's over already?' You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.

Cobi Jones

#2. I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time ... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!

Marc Jacobs

#3. I'm definitely someone who likes to fly by the seat of her pants. My mum always prays for the best ...

Ali Larter

#4. I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

Lee Iacocca

#5. The fly-by-nights don't want to spend any time with you.

Robert Manning

#6. I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#7. Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

Mason Cooley

#8. How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?

Mark Harmon

#9. We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Luciano De Crescenzo

#10. After I pulled in, I decided in my typical fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants fashion that if anyone asked, I was going to be "lost." I hoped no one would have the opportunity to look in the car. Lost and a fancy GPS system didn't go together.

Myra McEntire

#11. You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.

Ice Cube

#12. In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

Marcus Aurelius

#13. You can't fly by staring at the sky. You have to take a risk to grow wings of imagination and fly.

Debasish Mridha

#14. You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

William Shatner

#15. Days are very mysterious things, of course. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours.

Melanie Benjamin

#16. I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams

#17. Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

P. J. O'Rourke

#18. I know he has something in mind because this man doesn't fly by the seat of his pants. He's done this enough to be calculating, his every move premeditated.

Georgia Cates

#19. Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.

Harlan Coben

#20. You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

Donald G. Mitchell

#21. Not everyone can fly by bubble !

Gregory Maguire

#22. Why do we walk when we can fly by spreading the wings of our love?

Debasish Mridha

#23. I think music piracy is forcing many people to look at the live aspect of the record industry as an income and in many ways that's what sets apart good music and musicians from the fly by night pop sensations.

Ben Howard

#24. Create a good work and get lost! Let your work walk by itself, run by itself, fly by itself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. A rare piece of magic, don't let it FLY by you

Jeff McBride

#26. You merely pass the time, making millennia fly by.

Erica Jong

#27. You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.

Marya Hornbacher

#28. I'd probably go to see Saturn first-thing and see as close to those rings as I can get and see if I can fly by one of them and try and put one of my hands through them.

Adam Young

#29. When a man is born ... there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

James Joyce

#30. What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

#31. We are four worthy orphans with a no-nonsense nanny."
Like Mary Poppins?" suggested the man, with a pleased look of recognition.
Not one bit like that fly-by-night woman," Nanny said with a sniff. "It almost gives me diabetes just to think of her: all those disgusting spoonfuls of sugar!

Lois Lowry

#32. Rhiannon's Law #68: If you're going to fly by the seat of your pants, rock out with your cock out. The landing is going to hurt either way, and you might as well make an impression when you nail it.

J.A. Saare

#33. Your life will fly by, so make sure you're the pilot.

Rob Liano

#34. Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubl'd thoughts, and from the bottom stirr The Hell within him, for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step no more then from himself can fly By

John Milton

#35. Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

Francis Bacon

#36. I saw a spaceship fly by your window. Did you see it disappear?

Damien Rice

#37. You'll note that politicians no longer spend money, they invest it. Don't worry about paying more to the [IRS]. You aren't being taxed; you're taking a plunge on a fly-by-night stock issue.

P. J. O'Rourke

#38. This wasn't strong-willed, fly-by-the-seat-of-her-miniskirt Kate that I'd befriended last year. You think you know a girl- and then she goes and loses her virginity at a Mardi Gras party and goes soft.

Lauren Kate

#39. Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

Margot Fonteyn

#40. You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#41. In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

Simon McBurney

#42. Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by
climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.

Eddie Vedder

#43. He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.

Libba Bray

#44. With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

John Bonham

#45. We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.

John Harrison

#46. All the time, I looked out our lattice window. I watched the birds fly by. I followed the clouds on their travels. I studied the moon as it grew larger, then shrank. So much happened outside my window that I almost forgot what was happening inside that room.

Lisa See

#47. What had sparked them to go from hating each other like these two did, to loving each other like they did now? Some random tumble of Fate, a fly-by jumble of chance. Zane didn't know, but he thanked God for it every day.

Abigail Roux

#48. This is something I learned when I was working at a newspaper: when you put something on paper, whether it's words or pictures, and it's staring back at the reader, they are now alone in the room with them for as long as it takes them to turn the page. Whereas on television, the images fly by.

Brian Michael Bendis

#49. The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.

Barry Gibb

#50. It's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

Bernard Malamud

#51. It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

Craig Ferguson

#52. Never were finer snares for womens' honesties
Than are devis'd in these days ; no spider's web's
Made of a daintier thread, than are now practis'd
To catch love's flesh-fly by the silver wing

Thomas Middleton

#53. In fact, humans on Titan could fly by muscle power. A human in a hang glider could comfortably take off and cruise around powered by oversized swim-flipper boots - or even take off by flapping artificial wings. The power requirements are minimal - it would probably take no more effort than walking.

Randall Munroe

#54. The life of a human being on this earth is very short - the years fly by - and the opportunity is past - forever. You know that the ONLY REASON for a human being's life on this earth is to attain to the Knowledge of God - all else is nothing, all else passes away as a wind passes away.

Violette Nakhjavani

#55. I kept my eyes open on the ride home. Peeking over Lucas's shoulder, i watched the scenery fly by-and it was exhilarating, not frightening. I trusted him. I had since that first night, when i let him drive me home.

Tammara Webber

#56. In deep silence, close your eyes and let your heart fly by spreading those wings of love in an unknown sky.

Debasish Mridha

#57. Sometimes I see a bird fly by and I feel jealous. But then other times I see a bird fly into a closed window and I feel laughing.

Demetri Martin

#58. As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.

Theo Rossi

#59. I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're ... sometimes ... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Elizabeth Edwards

#60. The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#61. Let us trust the power of love,
and fly by spreading the wings of love.

Debasish Mridha

#62. I've never been good at accepting jobs six months down the line. I can't do it. If I'm thinking about this, I can't think about that. So I always seem to fly by the seat of my pants.

Robert Carlyle

#63. You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.

Douglas Conant

#64. I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day ...

Robert Frost

#65. The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have no business on earth. They do not labour, but by contemplation alone they already live in heaven.

Anthony Of Padua

#66. There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night

Coco Chanel

#67. The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.

Ray Bradbury

#68. Maybe it was possible to relinquish control. He could do this, with Bengt he could. Give himself up and fly. He closed his eyes, let himself be pulled in by the touch. Bengt's arms. Bengt's hands on his thighs, arms, chest. Lips and tongue on neck and shoulders, the need for more. 'Don't stop.

G.B. Gordon

#69. Mind your own Brazilian! The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops.
OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is to pretend nothing happened.

Sophie Kinsella

#70. As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.

Francois Fenelon

#71. Don't judge a bird by its feathers;
judge it by how high it can fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#72. Controlling someone by changing their brain is like trying to stop a hovercar by digging a ditch. If they think hard enough, they can fly right over.

Scott Westerfeld

#73. Having a delivery covered by Medicare just isn't going to fly. It's too risky for a woman to put a baby down and not remember where she left it.

Erma Bombeck

#74. They did not hear Grimble, as he lay dying, chant in the true voice of the Boreal Owl, in tones like chimes in the night, an ancient owl prayer, "I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly."

Kathryn Lasky

#75. If you will but aspire
You will attain to all that you desire.
Before an atom of such need the Sun
Seems dim and mirky by comparison.
It is life's strength, the wings by which we fly
Beyond the further reaches of the sky.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#76. To fly deep into the sky, you have to expand your wings by learning new things.

Debasish Mridha

#77. The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another by the hand. Every puddle in the lane is ringed with sipping butterflied that fly up in flutter when you walk past in the late morning on your way to get the mail.

Wendell Berry

#78. I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

Alan Cumming

#79. God continually turns you from one state of feeling to another, revealing truth by means of opposites.... So that you may have the two wings of fear and hope; for the bird with one wing is unable to fly....

Jalaluddin Rumi

#80. Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.

Suzy Amis

#81. I've been truly blessed. I've been a fly on the wall of history. I've been just so many lucky places just by chance and serendipity, and obviously a huge portion of that serendipity had to do with my relationship with the real president, Ronald Reagan.

Arthur Laffer

#82. Kindness is a magical spell - performed by enlightened beings - meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#83. I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash ... you add a longer tail ... you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly.

Erma Bombeck

#84. Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.

John Gierach

#85. Wake up, see your own wretchedness, and fly to the Lord Jesus. He is the righteousness of God, for He Himself is God. Only by believing in His righteousness will you be delivered from condemnation.

John Bunyan

#86. Against the mutability of dream, the natural laws advocated by our bewigged Enlightenment forebears are powerless. Newton, for instance, insists on gravity and other prohibitions of the physical world, from which (while we are awake) we are never free. But we can fly in dreams.

Gregory Maguire

#87. It felt as though I had been holding on to Sally all these years, by the tips of my fingers. Just holding on. She was like a moth, fragile and fleeting. One rough breath, one lurch , one tiny movement of your hand and she'd fly away from you.

Belinda Jeffrey

#88. Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

Horace

#89. I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

Kent McCord

#90. I'd fly. I sit and watch the birds go by and say, I wish I could do that.

Kristin Kreuk

#91. The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

August Krogh

#92. If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.

Rumi

#93. since the moment those photons left our own sun, I had been born, raised, educated, inducted into the Commonwealth Defense Corps, and trained to fly a drop ship, and I had still beaten the light to Fomalhaut by a few days.

Marko Kloos

#94. Whiskey grunted. By his count, he and Patrick had six days to go before he hauled the kid out by his ear on field work and let Fly Bait plan the destruction of all testosterone-based land mammals on general principal.

Amy Lane

#95. Cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life.

Robin Wasserman

#96. Woe to the deer who is courted by the charismatic wolf, or to the fly who is not immune to the sweet, sultry songs of the spider.

Nenia Campbell

#97. Don't kill! ...
The fly is asking you
To save his life
By rubbing his hands together

Kobayashi Issa

#98. He responded with one of those looks of pity and amusement I was by now so used to getting, the kind that implied not only was my fly undone, but that there was nothing to see even if it was.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#99. You can get some sense of the immaterial quality of clouds by strolling through fog - which is, after all, nothing more than a cloud that lacks the will to fly.

Bill Bryson

#100. Evil' is after all a relative term: there being a minor and pragmatical sort, to be disposed of as one swats a fly, and a vast, all-encompassing, one might say universal sort, that must be halted by any means at hand.

Joyce Carol Oates