Top 21 Flypaper Quotes
#2. It was like a bit of flypaper stuck to your finger that you couldn't shake off. The bloody thing clung to life like a limpet.
Alan Bradley
#3. Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul ... And the little helpless buzzings of honest, liberal, kindly people, aren't they like the thin little noise flies make when they're caught?
John Dos Passos
#4. I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.
Brendan Fraser
#5. Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
Ibrahim Babangida
#6. Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
Errol Morris
#8. He takes a step forward, and I hate the way he looks at me. Appraising and approving. Hungry. It draws me in against my will, like he's flypaper, and everything inside me is buzzing and trying to wrench itself free.
Leisa Rayven
#9. Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
Cornelia Funke
#11. The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#12. Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.
Karl Albrecht
#13. You and I were created by God to be so much more than normal ... Following the crowd is not a winning approach to life. In the end it's a loser's game, because we never become who God created us to be by trying to be like everybody else.
Tim Tebow
#14. Librarians. He'd never met one with a bad memory. He had a theory that words stuck to their minds like flies to flypaper.
Cornelia Funke
#15. Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.
Joni Mitchell
#16. If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the deep space discovered by Hubble and the cosmologists, and the deep time discovered by Darwin and the evolutionists.
Michael Shermer
#17. Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.
Tom Hanks
#20. Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.
Lee H. Hamilton
#21. The very best people are like that. They don't entangle you like flypaper.
Alan Bradley
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