fly Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about fly.
“There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?”
- Jeffrey Kluger
“I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.”
- Randy Johnson
“This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.”
- Kenny Marchant
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic.”
- Frank Miller
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.”
- Francis Beaumont
“I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.”
- Elena Anaya
“To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.”
- Cornelia Otis Skinner
“A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.”
- Lakhdar Brahimi
“The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.”
- Christopher Hitchens