Flying The Coop Quotes

#1. Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

Albert Ellis

#2. I'm nothing if not a literary hedonist.

Michael Dirda

#3. When a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

George R R Martin

#5. Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

Dennis Moore

#6. Man's wants remain unsatisfied till death.
Then, when his soul is naked, is he one
With the man in the wind, and the west moon,
With the harmonious thunder of the sun

Dylan Thomas

#7. Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?

Todd Gitlin

#8. When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

Alison Moyet

#9. Drinking and other forms of body-wrecking pleasures are signs of weakness rather than manliness. It takes a better man to live a clean life - free from the stimulants, depressants, and drugs - than to be artificially [stimulated].

Billy Graham

#10. The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland.

Marek Hlasko