Flew Quotes

• My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.

  Alan Bradley

  Husband, Grandmother, Air

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• This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he goes on. He knows his place. He most certainly doesn't challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it?

  Ken Kesey

  Wise, Strong, Law

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.33, Hamilton Books

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• What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.

  Ken Kesey

  Crazy, Thinking, Average

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• I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.

  Ken Kesey

  Truth, Thinking, Long

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Penguin

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• But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

  Ken Kesey

  Truth, Mcmurphy, History

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Paper, March, Los Angeles

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• Flew concluded that research into DNA had 'shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved'.

  Antony Flew

  Dna, Research, Produce

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• The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.

  Dabney Coleman

  New York, Airplane, School

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• I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Anniversary, Girl, Should Have

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• My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.

  Minnie Pearl

  Country, Husband, Redneck

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• Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Courage, Fear, Fall

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• As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

  Clement Clarke Moore

  Christmas, Sky, Flew Up

  Clement Clarke Moore (1934). “The Night Before Christmas: (A Visit from St. Nicholas).”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

  Ken Kesey

  Life, Running, Hurt

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.128, Hamilton Books

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• The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

  Alan Shepard

  Attitude, Airplane, Pilots

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• A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.

  George Mercer Dawson

  Eggs, Ducks, Water

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• There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

  Joseph Heller

  Crazy, Would Be, Want

  Catch-22 ch. 5 (1961).

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• I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

  Roald Dahl

  Egypt, Iraq, Flying

  Roald Dahl (2008). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.156, Penguin UK

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• The dogs did bark, the children screamed,
  Up flew the windows all;
  And every soul bawled out, Well done!
  As loud as he could bawl.

  William Cowper

  Dog, Children, Soul

  William Cowper, “The Diverting History Of John Gilpin, Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, And Came Safe Home Again”

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• I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Schedules, World, Film

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• The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?

  David Crosby

  Running, Song, Flew Up

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• Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

  Ken Kesey

  Relationship, Happiness, Smile

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.36, Hamilton Books

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• The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Determination, Brother

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• 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

  Monica Seles

  Christmas, Sports, Travel

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• The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.

  Antony Flew

  Christian, Religious, Miracle

  Gary R. Habermas, Antony Flew, David J. Baggett (2009). “Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew”, p.85, InterVarsity Press

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• The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.

  Antony Flew

  Love Is, Inspire, Islam

  "The Terrors of Islam". Atheist Notes, No. 6, 2004.

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