Flying Quotes - page 2

I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross! (Hilary Duff)

You've got to believe in yourself Or no one will believe in you Imagination like a bird on the wing Flying free for you to use.

Ozzy Osbourne

Time is flying never to return.

Virgil

I find above all that the expression, "atonal music," is most unfortunate - it is on a par with calling flying "the art of not falling," or swimming "the art of not drowning."

Arnold Schoenberg

Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.

Antoni Tàpies

Vital spark of heav'nly flame Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying.

Alexander Pope

The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.

Louis Armstrong

Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They can survive in the hottest of deserts. Some can remain on the wing for years at a time. They can girdle the globe. Now, we have taken over the earth and the sea and the sky, but with skill and care and knowledge, we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety - if we want to... And surely, we should.

David Attenborough

You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.

Louisa May Alcott

I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.

Tori Amos

The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams. (Robert E. Howard)

To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

Frederick Douglass

God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past.

Ani DiFranco

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air.

Erasmus Darwin

There was a pause – just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.

Ronald Firbank

Sometimes when I'm flying over the Alps I think, 'that's like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Elton John

The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.

Emile de Girardin

When will the church do her appointed work? She is represented as an angel of light, flying through heaven with the everlasting gospel to be proclaimed to the world. This represents the speed and directness with which the church is to prosecute her work.

Ellen G. White

I could give a flying crap about the political process.... We're an entertainment company.

Glenn Beck

Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this! (Vernor Vinge)

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

Amelia Earhart

Mario sees himself in Nintendo DS, and he feels like flying.

Reggie Fils-Aimé

There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.

Malcolm Lowry

Where have I been? I've been on my flying saucer tour. Which means like flying saucers I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately...no one doubts my existence.

Bill Hicks

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