Top 100 In Fly Quotes
#1. There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot.
Lefty Kreh
#2. Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#3. All right, we need a way to get into the palace. Any ideas?"
"Ask nicely? Charge in? Fly? Wait, do you mean reasonable ones?
Noelle Crawford
#4. A cracker kid in a designated white house in a black neighborhood off in fly- bitten Mississippi was about to let loose the secret beat of race music, forever blowing away the enriched-flour, box stepping public.
Richard Powers
#5. About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.
Arnold Gingrich
#6. I gotta say, Pluto is such a great character, and if I ever got to work with him, I'd be very happy. The scene where he gets caught in fly paper, he's such a great dog!
Bob Peterson
#7. In reference to Cat Stevens, it is very, very important we have accurate information on our terrorist watch list and our no fly list and that you have a remedy.
Asa Hutchinson
#8. I thought this would be the end of your antics. There are three hundred guests sitting in the church and suddenly you believe you can fly?
Yvonne Harriott
#9. It did seem amazing, in that moment, that there had ever existed a creature with the power to fly.
Karen Thompson Walker
#10. The caterpillar takes flight the moment it believes it was born to fly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. To paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow ... we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.
Robert Krulwich
#12. Rebecca saw red.The urge she had to fly at Elizabeth with her nails bared was too compelling. She couldn't resist it. That Elizabeth immediately stomped off wasn't going to stop her. She was going to cause the worst scandal London had seen in decades,and she didn't care!
Johanna Lindsey
#13. The chickens don't remember that their wings were clipped...They just can't fly anymore, and they don't remember why or even that they once could."
-a bit of conversation between Ginny and her grandmother in The Memory of Flight
Debra Bowling
#14. The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.
Paul Schullery
#15. I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it.
Linda Hamilton
#16. I'd always known that when you went through one of these doors, you went to another planet, and that that other planet might be so far away, you couldn't fly there in spaceship in a million years. Somehow, the whole thing had never seemed strange before today.
Mary G. Thompson
#17. Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.
Steve Bull
#18. 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
#19. I would give my left arm to fly in one of those aeroplanes ...
Joseph Boyden
#20. As students of the silver screen recall, Bogart's admonition about future regret led Bergman to board the plane and fly away with her husband. Had she stayed with Bogey in Casablanca, she would probably have felt just fine. Not right away, perhaps, but soon, and for the rest of her life.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#21. I'm going to ask the three executives here to raise their hand if they flew here commercial. Let the record show, no hands went up. Second, I'm going to ask you to raise your hand if you are planning to sell your jet in place now and fly back commercial. Let the record show, no hands went up.
Brad Sherman
#22. Shouldn't the preacher who married the couple in the first place have to fly back in on a broomstick for that, too - that moving on? Shouldn't there be some ritual involving a long walk over hot coals while all the guests who'd been at the wedding watched, weeping, throwing stones at your bare
Laura Kasischke
#23. Death is a butterfly in it's cocoon waiting to fly ...
Maria Housden
#24. Falling is the first step in learning how to fly.
Jodi Picoult
#25. Stagolee was, undoubtedly and without question, the baddest nigger that ever lived. Stagolee was so bad that the flies wouldn't even fly around his head in the summertime, and snow wouldn't fall on his house in the winter. He was bad, jim.
Julius Lester
#26. In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.
J.M. Barrie
#27. There are people who fly to the height of stardom in a single day, and then there are people like me. I used to have this ridiculous idea that I absolutely had to be a big, big movie star. Now all I'm after is happiness.
Teri Polo
#28. If you don't think you have enough problems, you should acquire a mammal in Sweden just hours before you're about to fly home to the other side of the world, and then insist that the animal must come along in your luggage.
Jonas Jonasson
#29. Srikkanth is a vegetarian. If he swallows a fly, he will be in trouble
Sunil Gavaskar
#30. There are sicknesses that walk in darkness, and there are exterminating angels who fly wrapt up in the curtains of immateriality and an uncommunicating nature; whom we cannot see but we feel their foorce and sink under their sword.
Jeremy Taylor
#31. A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present.
Gilbert Highet
#32. We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.
Cecil Day-Lewis
#33. There's a lot of interest there in the missions that I fly on and the ones my brother's involved with.
Mark Kelly
#34. Sometimes I rode north to the big prairie-dog town to watch the brown earth-owls fly home in the late afternoon and go down to their nests underground with the dogs.
Willa Cather
#35. The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of the 'Bombyx mori', no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. As my encyclopedia poignantly puts it: 'The legs of the larvae have degenerated, and the adults no longer fly'.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#36. In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
Hannah More
#37. That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.
Erin Morgenstern
#38. If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.
Charles Lindbergh
#39. Hurry is a thief, pure and simple. And sometimes when we complain about the absence of certain things in our lives, we really aren't missing those things at all - rather, we just don't notice them when they're there because we fly right by them on our way to something else.
Tom Walsh
#40. The right man in your life will fly across the world to say hello, instead of saying goodbye.
Shannon L. Alder
#41. Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief executives, or the woman who wants to learn to fly F-l8s off an aircraft carrier, it works differently.
Stacy Schiff
#42. 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
#43. Who doesn't want to fly around in a spaceship?
Douglas Booth
#44. We didn't have an indigenous Taliban before 2008. We didn't have a war in Swat before 2008, we didn't have a war in Waziristan. We never, in our 63-year history, we have never allowed unmanned Predator drones from ANY country to fly over our skies and kill our citizens.
Fatima Bhutto
#45. I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.
Herb Kelleher
#46. In its lifetime, an albatross is believed to fly around fifteen million miles. To put that into perspective, it is the same as flying half way to Mars when it is at its closest distance to the Earth.
Jack Goldstein
#47. The roofs are shining from the rain,
The sparrows twitter as they fly,
And with a windy April grace
The little clouds go by.
Yet the back yards are bare and brown
With only one unchanging tree-
I could not be so sure of Spring
Save that it sings in me.
Sara Teasdale
#48. I feel good. I'm up there. I got third in the 100 'fly, I've qualified in the top eight already for the 100 freestyle.
Libby Trickett
#49. The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
#50. All his life he had not planted one tree in his own garden, nor grown one blade of grass; and living among the living, he had not saved one fly; he had done nothing but destroy and ruin, and lie, lie ...
Anton Chekhov
#51. I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I'm eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.
Michelle Obama
#52. You see, she was gonna be an actress and I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, and I took off for the sky. And here, she's acting happy, inside her handsome home. And me, I'm flying in my taxi, taking tips, and getting stoned. I go flying so high, when I'm stoned.
Harry Chapin
#53. He cold, he dope, he might sell coke He always in the air but he never fly coach
Nicki Minaj
#54. I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too.
Lee Trevino
#55. Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears.
Joseph Monninger
#56. The day is coming when I fly off, but who is it now in my ear who hears my voice? Who says words with my mouth? Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking.
Rumi
#57. Fine - I said huffily. - But I hope I'm at least allowed to fly around the corridors during lunch hour.
Gabriel threw me a disapproving look. I waited for him to get my joke, but his eyes remained serious. I sighed. Much as I loved him, Gabriel could be totally lacking in any sense of humor.
Alexandra Adornetto
#58. If you don't let things develop, it's like keeping something in a bag and not letting it out to fly
Earl Scruggs
#59. You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.
Thomas Watson
#60. I'm coming into this embracing that wild spirit in you. I don't want to clip your wings. I want to fly with you.
Lisa Kessler
#61. Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#63. When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it.
Wally Schirra
#64. 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.
#65. I want to make sure I'm fly. Nothing too baggy, something that fits right. I just like that feeling when you go out in public and everyone's like "Wow, that's an awesome outfit."
Dwight Howard
#66. I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.
Zoe Kravitz
#67. God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.
Ogden Nash
#68. 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
#69. Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.
John Green
#70. Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.
Gustav Krupp
#71. When Sabine parted her lips to argue, Lanthe said, "This baby bird's gotta fly, sis." "Great," Sabine drawled. "She's already speaking in avian metaphors.
Kresley Cole
#72. I wonder at the starry pattern in the sky
Are they little pieces of moon which want to fly..?
Munia Khan
#73. You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.
Bubba Sparxxx
#74. Mostly, though, I dream of good things ... I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the ... houses and kites will fly in the skies.
Khaled Hosseini
#75. I'll bring you to the Land-of-Almost-Awake, and we'll eat dreams and dance and laugh and cry and be brave and forgive people, and we'll fly with the cloud animals and Granny will be sitting on a bench in Miasmas, smoking and waiting for us.
Fredrik Backman
#76. In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#77. It's nice, but it's also getting to the point where if they keep swooning into each other's eyes, we're all going to drown in their saccharine sweetness as rainbows fly out their butts.
T.J. Klune
#78. I think sometimes in life, you have to spread your wings and fly
L.W. Michelle
#79. ... life is as fragile as a butterfly win and we must carry it lightly. Sometimes it will sit happily in our hands, sometimes it will fly away from us, but in the end
no matter the distance or the complications in between
the things we truly care for will always come back to us.
Hazel Gaynor
#80. In our dreams we are able to fly ... and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.
Madeleine L'Engle
#81. In the distant golden sunset sky, a magnificent rainbow is opening wings to fly.
Debasish Mridha
#82. There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence - or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.
Arthur C. Clarke
#83. I learned to walk; since then I have let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#84. the question is not whether more flies can be caught with honey than with vinegar, but why the flies are being caught in either case - and how this feels to the fly.
Alfie Kohn
#85. Who would be free themselves must strike the blow ... I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that would bury the Government and your liberty in the same hopeless grave. This is your golden opportunity.
Frederick Douglass
#86. Relationship ties
heart of two souls
eager to fly freely
soaring to sky feats
in full-fledged wings
unrestrained passions
to a realm in which
both remain invisible.
Rajesh Nanoo
#87. I want to climb on top and lace my fingers right down into the marrow of your bones and cast off and fly. I want to sail you like a kite in the sky. I want you holding on to me for dear life.
Joanna Bourne
#88. While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.
Billy Collins
#89. There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.
Joyce Meyer
#90. Who in their dreams is not omnipotent? If in sleep I grow wings and fly high above the land, it does not mean I will awaken cloaked in feathers. We are gods in our dreams. Disaster strikes when we come to believe the same is true in our real lives.
Steven Erikson
#91. Miriam - I'll give you any flowers you want!' Rhapsodising over the thousand scents of her body, I exclaimed: 'I'll grow orchids from your hands, roses from your breasts. You can have magnolias in your hair ... !'
'And in my heart?'
'In your womb I'll set a fly-trap!
J.G. Ballard
#92. She stared at me. "Fly, ;ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, AND carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?"
"Yeah," I said. "Pretty much exactly like that.
Rick Riordan
#93. Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight
William Shakespeare
#94. Icarus burned because he flew during the day. He wanted the world to see. We fly in the darkness, where people are afraid to look.
J.J. McAvoy
#95. I watched 'Iron Man 3' the other night, and my chin was on the floor. 'Vikingdom' is a different type of movie, because it's rooted in reality. The characters are more real; they're not these superhuman people who can fly and do things.
Craig Fairbrass
#96. I watched you storm towards the restaurant door. It was a chilly December morning and the birds sitting on the high wires in the neighborhood refused to fly any longer.
Malak El Halabi
#97. I'm beginning to feel as though we're in some kind of cocoon, I'm just afraid as to what we are going to emerge as. Will I fly away or will he destroy me.
Nicole T. Smith
#98. 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
#99. A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
Damien Rice
#100. Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere
"Be bold;
Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
Than the defect; better the more than less;
Better like Hector in the field to die,
Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
