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Tag Name "Flies" (378)

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The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind expires. Then it flies to the land of stones and etchings And becomes an Ember, breaking away
Jessica Sorensen
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Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.
Anton Chekhov
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The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor.
Robert Adams
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Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.
Carol Leifer
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It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.
Gabrielle Zevin
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Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'
Philip Zimbardo
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Place (or put) a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies alas, they are many those who, in the figurative meaning, have spider's eyes.
African Spir
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Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.
William Shakespeare
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
Alexander Pope
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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
Gilles Deleuze
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Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.
George Herbert
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Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last thirty years. Reflecting on the upcoming 30th anniversary of Apollo 11.
Pete Conrad
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What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!
D. H. Lawrence
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My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies.
William Habington
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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
Errol Morris
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Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
Martial
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This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
Seth Godin
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Anything good has a magical power! Say something good it travels around the world without legs do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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No man is infinitely strong for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.
Philip K. Dick
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