Flew Quotes - Page 3

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

Ken Kesey

Strong, Cuckoos, World

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

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She flew like a bird, only faster.

Alvin M. Johnston

Airplane, Bird, Aviation

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Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is rewarded, not punished. The Wright Brothers did not have their wings melt when they flew too high. Perhaps their wings were more soundly built than those of Icarus.

John C. Wright

Uplifting, Dream, Brother

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To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

Daniel Handler

Butterfly, Bats, Montana

"A Series of Unfortunate Events #4: The Miserable Mill". Book by Daniel Handler, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2000.

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I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings.

Stanley Kunitz

Summer, Writing, Thinking

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We flew throughout the summer and fall and the start of winter. At first the whiteness gave way to the green of summer, and then gold covered the fields and forests, and then the whiteness again.

Anatoly Berezovoy

Summer, Fall, Winter

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I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don't know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it kind of stuck with me.

Robert Pattinson

Thinking, Careers, Trying

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Dream, Night, Eight

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President Obama flew to a rally in Las Vegas last night. However, he did not visit any of the casinos. You know why? When you're $16 trillion in debt, they don't let you in.

Jay Leno

Night, Vegas, President

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He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.

Douglas Adams

Trying, Usual, Velocity

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.

P. G. Wodehouse

Wind, Rushing, Gowns

P. G. Wodehouse (1991). “The great sermon handicap”, James H. Heineman

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The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.

Primo Levi

Beautiful, Eye, Butterfly

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I get really nervous if pigeons are flying around before shows. I can't stand them after one once flew in through my bathroom window and went for me while I was having a wee. That was enough. I think pigeons target me.

Niall Horan

Thinking, Flying, Pigeons

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Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn't have to waste a lot of ammunition.

Rick Yancey

Smart, Doors, Waste

Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.41, Penguin

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President Obama flew to China a few days ago and announced a joint environmental pact with the communist regime. The United States will reduce its carbon emissions substantially over the next 11 years. China will do absolutely nothing but hope that its emissions decline after 2030.

Erick Erickson

Years, Carbon Emissions, Environmental

Erick Erickson (2016). “The Wrong Type of Values”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was 15, I designed, built and flew a toy model airplane which won the then-famous James Gordon Bennett Cup. By 16 I had discovered that design could be fun and profitable, and this lesson has never been lost on me.

Raymond Loewy

Fun, Airplane, Science

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My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

Rodney Dangerfield

Baseball, Father, Play

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When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.

Danny Masterson

Keys, Cities, Car

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Lately I was near the beehives and some of the bees flew onto my face. I wanted to raise my hand, and brush them off. 'No,' said a peasant to me, 'do not be afraid, and do not touch them. They will not sting you at all, if you touch them they will bite you.' I trusted him; not one bit me. Trust me; do not fear these temptations. Do not touch them; they will not hurt you.

Saint Francis de Sales

Hurt, Hands, Temptation

Saint Francis (de Sales) (1995). “Thy Will be Done: Letters to Persons in the World”, p.216, Sophia Institute Press

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With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as he flew, were like smoke at his feet. He lived a great life while we slept, in the dark of the night, And went home by the mariners' road, down the stars' empty street.

Ernest Rhys

Stars, Home, Heart

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One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

Tom Clancy

Life, Weather, Flying

Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.136, Penguin

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Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.

Michael O'Leary

Morning, People, Flight

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Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves. Such was my elation that I ran inside, put on our ancient cracked record of Aretha Franklin singing Respect and danced all by myself for half an hour in our living room, without inhibition, almost crying with jubilation – not just about the wood, but because I could live competently some of the time, and because that day I liked myself.

Helen Garner

Block, Two, Perfect

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I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.

Lynn Redgrave

Butterfly, Cocoons

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Ali Woodson was one of the few Iconic Soul-Singers left from the Motown Era that could STILL sell out a crowd, light up a party, & make the women scream! Ali & I have loved, fought, flew & cruised these United States together. His raspy but golden tones will be missed but his music, acting & friendship will last in my heart 4-ever.

Luenell

Party, Heart, Light

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