Flying Quotes - Page 20

• When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.

  Regina Brett

  Cancer, Air, Land

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• The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

  Douglas Adams

  Art, Lying, Humor

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.398, Del Rey

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• Prose is walking; poetry is flying

  Galway Kinnell

  Poetry Is, Prose, Walking

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• You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

  Richard Bach

  Son, Light, Numbers

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Spring: trees flying up to their birds

  Paul Celan

  Spring, Bird, Tree

  Paul Celan, Rosemarie Waldrop (2003). “Collected Prose”, p.11, Psychology Press

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• Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophical, Bird, Flight

  "Les Miserables".

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• Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.

  Rick Riordan

  Burritos, Wells, Cannonballs

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• If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.

  Frank McCourt

  Mean, Giving, Parent

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose and for one blessed moment, one blessed tiny instant, the songs of Heaven resounded down the tunnel as if its curves were not made of wind but of something solid that could echo these ethereal songs, and their organized rhythm, their heartbreaking beauty piercing the catastrophic suffering of this place-Lestat

  Anne Rice

  Song, Blessed, Tunnels

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• I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Believe, Risk, Aviation

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.

  George Saunders

  Elderly, Land, Games

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• He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he feels he is riding a floating skeleton...Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Dark, Reflection, Skeletons

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• I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Growing Up, Kids, Kissing

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky, (pp. 73-74), 1999.

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• No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.

  W. G. Sebald

  Mother, Light, Boston

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it.

  Hermann Hesse

  Stars, Night, Glasses

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• And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds and I was falling like a stone, that they had wings and I would never have any.

  Milan Kundera

  Fall, Heart, Sight

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• just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can

  Douglas Coupland

  Attention, Way, Bees

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• How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Grief, Blue

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• You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like them. They're...furry. Flying things shouldn't be furry. It's not right. And if I ever meet the Creator, I'm taking that one up with him." "That I'd like to see. Your one and possible only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you ask, 'Why are bats furry?'" "I will. You just wait.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Angel, Waiting, Bats

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• I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sunset, Wings, Pay

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• I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Ideas, People, Affront

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.451, St. Martin's Press

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• and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Eye, Hatred

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• Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there.

  Nhat Hanh

  Laughter, Struggle, Flower

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• Has it ever occurred to you that you might be delusional?' That's what the psychiatrist said, but I think he's wrong. There's an evil flying pizza out there, and it's got Brenda's name on it.

  Janet Evanovich

  Thinking, Names, Evil

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.222, Macmillan

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• Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana: I daren't ask what a 'hush puppy' is. Hel: Don't.

  Trevanian

  Beer, Meat, Elbows

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