Top 56 Trying To Fly Quotes
#1. You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly.
Ozzy Osbourne
#2. Ase waved it off, even though his heart hammered in his chest, trying to fly out of his ribcage and jump down Jase's throat to go stay with his heart forever and ever, amen.
Kade Boehme
#3. Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like a crazy person trying to fly a helicopter like all of it from birth to here point A to point Z was all some big cosmic trick to get me to meet you. - Sanjit to Lana
Michael Grant
#4. When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly.
Debasish Mridha
#6. People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.
Terry Pratchett
#7. Trying to achieve an error-free manuscript is almost like trying to fly to the moon on a paper airplane.
Jon Michael Riley
#8. Penguins don't waste their time trying to fly. They're unique. They know they were built for the water.
Sidney Knight
#9. Open skies painted above painted doorways and painted birds skimming across bricks trying to fly away. Little bird, what are you thinking? You come from a can.
Cath Crowley
#10. I Will Never Stop Trying To Fly, Because I'm Not Convinced That Anything Is Impossible!
Matt Scott
#12. Victor didn't want to run while Eli was busy trying to fly.
Victoria Schwab
#13. The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.
Andrew Bird
#14. That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
Kate Bush
#15. Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.
Marc Maron
#16. Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
Henri Bergson
#17. Smashed fly or the dead pig, gone stiff in the sun. It made his stomach feel funny even trying. "I don't think it's fair we've got to do Luke's chores now," Luke's other brother,
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#18. 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
#19. When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.
Florence Welch
#20. There's a thing about trying too hard, which I think is in all forms, which is if you really try to do things really well, you can get to a less good place than if you just let go and let it fly. Especially in creativity.
Eddie Izzard
#21. 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
#22. The difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.
Mary Stewart
#23. To fly into Moscow was a joy. I was trying to understand what people were thinking and how to earn money. In the end, I stayed.
Suleyman Kerimov
#24. The places where we went, it was not safe to be any bigger than a two-person crew. In Afghanistan, the only way for us to operate was to try to fly under the radar of everyone.
Rick Rowley
#25. It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is our duty.
Jose Yacopi
#26. You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.
Sinead O'Connor
#27. Someone drew you wings a long time ago and you've been trying to decide whether to fly away ever since.
Joey W. Hill
#28. When I was in Colditz, that impenetrable fortress, whittling away my life, I wanted to know this."
"Looks like you're still there, Shura."
"No," he said. "I'm in New York, a fly on the wall, trying to see you without me.
Paullina Simons
#29. We're all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive in, it doesn't matter. What matters is when the red light [camera] comes on.
Jerry Seinfeld
#30. If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.
Wu Guanzhong
#31. I fly with the stars in the skies I am no longer trying to survive ...
Nicki Minaj
#32. Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the most beautiful way of moving the body between between two points, not the most direct. Fly fishing is to fishing as ballet is to walking.
Howell Raines
#33. I led the way toward the crowd, trying to look casual, like, Fly? Me? Nah.
James Patterson
#34. Trying to build a spaceship by making an aeroplane fly faster and higher is like trying to build an aeroplane by making locomotives faster and lighter - with a lot of effort, perhaps you could get something that more or less works, but it really isn't the right way to proceed.
Henry Spencer
#35. Would you like to watch TV or get between the sheets and contemplate this violent freeway, would you like something to eat would you like to learn to fly would ya, would you like to see me try
Roger Waters
#36. The army don't teach enlisted men how to fly," I said, trying to hold onto my dignity. "We gotta do that for ourselves.
Amy Lane
#37. Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
Phyllis McGinley
#38. We are all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf or skydiving. What matters is when the red light comes on.
Jerry Seinfeld to Michael Richards in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
Jerry Seinfeld
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#42. There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.
Evan Esar
#43. This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.
Swami Vivekananda
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.
Mike Young
#47. You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.
Jason Varitek
#48. If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.
Oswald Boelcke
#49. I love actors and I love to create an environment where they feel safe to connect and thrive and try things, to fail and succeed and flourish and fly.
Adriana Trigiani
#50. Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.
Miley Cyrus
#51. If the future's looking dark,
We're the ones who have to shine.
If there's no one in control,
We're the ones who draw the line.
Though we live in trying times,
We're the ones who have to try.
And we know that time has wings,
So we're the ones who have to fly.
Neil Peart
#52. as much as i try to be an easygoing, stretch your wings and fly type... i just can't stop trying to burst people into flames with my mind.
Erin Smith
#53. Obstetrics went about improving the same way Toyota and General Electric went about improving: on the fly, but always paying attention to the results and trying to better them. And
Atul Gawande
#54. Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#55. It's kind of a little fly-on-the-wall look at these people trying to stay sane.
John Gallagher Jr.
#56. They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst.
Erin Morgenstern
