Top 100 Fly Like Quotes
#1. Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Lewis Carroll
#3. Like Mardi Gras and Halloween rolled into a public party at the Playboy mansion, Rio during Carnaval is like no other place on earth. And the freak-flags fly like the color guard of an invading army.
James Schannep
#4. My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
Forrest Bird
#5. Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!
William Blake
#6. In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.
Herman Melville
#7. I want to be able to fly like a superhero. I won't be happy until I can fly across oceans and cities, saving people from being murdered.
Heather Graham
#8. A man does not fly like a bird, but one foot moves and then another and one day a man is there, and a king dies.
George R R Martin
#9. Move like a beam of light: fly like lightning, strike like thunder, whirl in circles around a stable center
Morihei Ueshiba
#10. So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive.
William Joyce
#11. I fly like paper, get high like planes
If you catch me at the border, I got visas in my name
M.I.A.
#12. That means I gotta fly like a movie no commercial That's Young Money, Cash Money yeah I'm universal
Nicki Minaj
#13. Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.
David Almond
#14. A chicken doesn't fly like other birds, but it is still a bird.
Jessica Khoury
#15. Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.
Isabel Allende
#16. Don't look down, it's an impossible view; Fly like an eagle whatever you do
Mos Def
#17. All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me.
Robin Williams
#18. Even so, I was growing more anxious to make my escape and fly like an arrow as far away as I could. But I'd made a deal with Collin, and I couldn't break it after just one day, could I?
Jody Hedlund
#19. If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.
Francesca Lia Block
#20. No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
Clarice Lispector
#21. Let your love fly like a bird on a wing
And let your love bind you to all livin' things
And let your love shine and you'll know what I mean
That's the reason.
Lawrence Eugene Williams
#22. Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final success came when he broke away entirely and tried new methods.
John W. Campbell
#23. After awhile, your, your cheap talk don't even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain.
Jimi Hendrix
#24. To be a fantastic writer, live in your dreams and imaginations where you can dance like a peacock, swim like a shark, and fly like a butterfly. Live where reality has no power to change you.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse,
My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse.
I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk,
Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk.
Ghostface Killah
#26. The need to do what's right, and maybe find a little adventure along the way." Poe shifted in his seat. "You remind me of my brother," Leia said softly. "Fly like him, too, apparently." Poe looked at her, surprised and flattered at once.
Greg Rucka
#28. Dream As a Human and Feel Free or Fly Like a Bird
Jan Jansen
#29. Speak the name, and death will come. On the morrow, at the turn of the moon, a year from this day, it will come. A man does not fly like a bird, but one foot moves and then another and one day a man is there.
George R R Martin
#30. You become excellent when you fly at a level that creates a wide gap between where you were before and where you are now. Fly like the eagle; the eagle flies as if it never remembered it was once an egg!
Israelmore Ayivor
#31. Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
Brian Tracy
#33. Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.
Bill Vaughan
#34. Words fly like stones into clouds and accelerate ...
Jay Woodman
#35. Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
Carl Sandburg
#36. The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, it's probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird
Gerry Lopez
#37. Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren
Anne Sexton
#38. I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.
Heather Day Gilbert
#39. There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle
And dark desperate hours that nobody sees
My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain
My head in my hands down on my knees
Stevie Nicks
#40. This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and will, I am sure, become one of the most popular. Many of us will perish before then, but that prospect will not dismay the braver spirits ... It is so delicious to fly like a bird!
Marie Marvingt
#41. For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with their young ones; but sin is a heavy affair, as another of the prophets says, sitting upon a talent of lead.
Gregory Of Nyssa
#42. Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep
W. H. Auden
#43. My name ain't Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle.
Coolio
#44. Stones taught me to fly, love taught me to lie, courage teach me to be shy ... because it's not hard to fall when you float like a cannonball.
Damien Rice
#45. How can you have boundaries if you fly? Those ants of yours - and the humans too - would have to stop fighting in the end, if they took to the air." "I like fighting," said the Wart. "It is knightly." "Because you're a baby.
T.H. White
#46. I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.
Ilana Glazer
#47. 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
#48. Falling in love is like leaping from a cliff. Your brain screams that it's not a good idea and that hurt and pain will inevitably come to you. But your
heart believes you can soar, glide and fly.
Marie Coulson
#49. Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity.
Rumi
#50. I want to fly from a window and pour through the air like a wind of love to raise his hair and slide into the palms of his hands.
Penelope Mortimer
#51. When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.
Darin Strauss
#52. When I shop, I only do it when I really have to do it for something. I don't like to try on clothing like that - as much I love looking fly.
Ciara
#53. Mama glanced down at me. "Do you have a crush on him?"
"Not a crush." I shook my head. "More like an inflate. He makes me feel the opposite of crushed. He makes my heart feel like a balloon, like it's going to blow up and fly right out of my chest.
Natalie Lloyd
#54. One day you'll get to fly, Soph, just like Pan and Wendy. Fly away home to a better place where everything is brighter, boys are never lost, and mothers don't ever leave. But right now? Don't mourn me, she
Shelly Crane
#55. Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
Tommy Douglas
#56. I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds - with God's help I catch some.
Jean Rhys
#57. Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind of hot. But when you are the jiggiest, when you exude jiggy-essence, it's the acme of cool.
Will Smith
#58. I felt like a bird pushed too soon from the nest, then blamed for learning to fly the wrong way.
Gail D. Storey
#59. Like planes need the turbulence of wind to fly, humanity needs to embrace diversity to change for the better. It will be by seeing differences and learning to work through them ... that will finally help humanity find true peace.
Timothy Pina
#60. I wasn't born to cook or clean,
but to read and write,
if you don't like me the way I am,
then go fly a kite.
Besa Kosova
#61. If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
Ed Koch
#62. The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
H.L. Mencken
#64. I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.
Tao Lin
#65. I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
E.L. Doctorow
#67. The birds scratch the seed out of the feeder, then fly down to the deck to eat the seed. They know there's a cat, but still they go down to pick at the seed. When you think about it, people are often like this, too.
Robert Crais
#68. As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.
Akhenaton
#69. I was shrewd like mauma. Even at ten I knew this story about people flying was pure malarkey. We weren't some special people who lost our magic. We were slave people, and we weren't going anywhere. It was later I saw what she meant. We could fly all right, but it wasn't any magic to it.
Sue Monk Kidd
#70. In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.
Hayao Miyazaki
#71. Sometimes life doesn't allow us to be free to fly wherever we'd like.
Elana Johnson
#72. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#73. And just what would I gain if I go back to that place? I'll stop at a tree when I like it and I'll fly when I like it.How I live and where I live is up to me, got it? -Kagura
Hideaki Sorachi
#74. A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens ... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly ... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?
Charles Ives
#75. Fresh dress, like a million bucks,
Put on the bally shoes and the fly green socks
Slick Rick
#76. Was this, I wondered, what it felt like to be a grown-up? Did you always feel the weight of things on you, your cares pressing you down like a burden you could never shake? No wonder Peter could fly. He had no worries to weight him to the earth.
Christina Henry
#77. Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#78. The days of my youth, as I look back on them; seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation can.
Vladimir Nabokov
#79. I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs ... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.
Chanel Iman
#80. I think you intentionally overreacted. Like killing a fly with a baseball bat, just to make sure it never bothers you again.
Kelley Armstrong
#81. I'd worry about your chaperone. She's trapped, like a spider caught in a web."
"Spiders make webs," I said. "They don't get caught in them."
"I meant a fly," Stew growled.
"How in the world would a spider get caught in a fly?
Lemony Snicket
#82. Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.
Emme Rollins
#83. You look like a handsome young man ... although you might want to zip your fly.
Mom!
What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?
Jordan Sonnenblick
#84. Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: It won't allow you to fly.
Rajneesh
#85. When I stand on the edge of a tall place I feel like I'm on the edge of time, peering into forever. The question 'What if ... ?' rises up in my mind, and it's exciting because I know that in the next instant, in less time than it takes to snap my fingers, I could fly into eternity.
Ruth Ozeki
#86. You just came out of the hospital ten days ago," Milo reminded him reprovingly. "You can't keep running into the hospital every time something happens you don't like. No, the best thing to do is fly the missions. It's our duty.
Joseph Heller
#87. I sit around for ages waiting for inspiration. Then when I get an idea, I want to go with it and get something as quickly as possible. It's like catching a fly in a bottle. I'll play with drums for a bit, then the piano for a bit, play the guitar.
Jamie Cullum
#88. In the bush he taught the knots I use to tie my blanket to my saddle Ds also the way I stand to use a carpenter's plane and the trick of catching fish with a bush fly and a strip of greenhide these things are like the dark marks made in the rings of great trees locked forever in my daily self.
Peter Carey
#89. Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.
Wm. Paul Young
#90. Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
Susan Orlean
#91. Like a bud is born with the knowing that it will flower when the season comes, like a bird is born with the principles of flight that take over when it spreads its wings to fly, the human body-mind-soul, is born with the capacity to heal itself, long before it is taught ... to forget.
Sanjiv Ranjan
#92. When did the business community in America become so sensitive? ... that we have to treat like some type of rare exotic animal - don't startle them or they'll fly away! ... we need to soothe them so they can nest here and lay their magic eggs full of jobs! - WHICH NEVER HATCH BY THE WAY!!! ...
Bill Maher
#93. 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
#94. Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.
Sir Fulke Greville
#95. I guess it's like an airplane: they're the drag and we're the thrust, together we make the thing fly.
Harper Lee
#96. Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship.
Chris Hadfield
#97. If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.
John Of The Cross
#98. I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#99. If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.
Guy Finley
#100. So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.
Richard Branson
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