Fly Quotes

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament.

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.

I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.

We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

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.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

She defaced my fly. And I've never been the same since.

I rarely watch TV but I guess I'd watch the weather report since I fly so much.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!

The paper burns, but the words fly away.

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.

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.

We now fly with an airbus, which has 210 seats, six times the week to Palma to the spider of the air Berlin.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.