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“If the lambs were flying, wolves would have also the wings to fly!”

“Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the cheapness of provisions and labour.”

Country Leaving Flying Labour Provision Provinces Cheapness

Author:David Hume

“Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.”

People Children Book Wanted Grows Realizing Growing Up Tree Flying Aspire Feats Inhuman

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“One of my favorite moments is onstage, when you see a dancer leap, and you think they're flying, and then they fall. It's that moment of suspension that you look for, and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't.”

Thinking Looks Sometimes Moments Fall My Favorite Flying Dancer That Moment Leap Suspension

Author:Cate Blanchett

“I like watching DVDs, flying my plane, walking and going to my place in Scotland. I like yoga. It takes me a while to unwind, the subconscious parts of my mind take a while to catch up with the rest of me.”

Mind Walking Yoga Flying Planes Take Me Subconscious Scotland Of My Mind Dvds Unwind

Author:Martin Shaw

“When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.”

Stills Moments Walks Cities Tree Feet Middle Miracle Flying

Author:Renzo Piano

“We're all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that hard we're close to flying. But nothing is an eagle bar God.”

Hard Running Cutting Wings Flying Bars Turkeys Eagles Flapping

Author:Phil Collins

“If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.”

Ifs Thinking Men World Years Different Race Happened Car Areas Accepted Driving Flying Great Things Airplane Race Car Being Accepted

Author:Danica Patrick

“The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!”

Trying Genius Bird Shadow Flying Clever

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!”

Feelings Pleasure Steps Flying Muscles Climbing Climbing Up

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to their ankles.”

People Ifs Would Be Given Lines Race Weight Flying Tied Ankles

Author:Mardy Grothe

“I have a real soft spot for flying saucer songs and Frenkenstein songs. When I was a kid the first record I ever really liked was called "The Mummy", and the flip-side was called "The Beat Generation" which Richard Hell later re-wrote as "The Blank Generation". I thought it was the greatest thing I had ever heard. I didn't like Elvis much then, but I was very young. When I was a kid I used to play that monster all the time!”

Firsts Real Play Kids Young Used Song Sides Hell Records Generations Heard Beats Monsters Flying Spots Blank Flip Mummy Flying Saucers Beat Generation

Author:Tom Verlaine

“Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?”

Sex London Flying Peanuts Marrying Pretzels

Author:Garrison Keillor

“My favorite scene in this film was the flying car, because that was just wicked.”

Film Car Scene My Favorite Flying Wicked Flying Cars

Author:Rupert Grint

“In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.”

World War Dark Walks Dying Danger Moon Winter Flying Snow Sowing Clovers

Book:New Collected Poems

Source: New Collected Poems

“On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing, capturing and eating other such animated chunks of complexity; capable in some cases of thinking and feeling, and falling in love with yet other chunks of complex matter.”

“We don't talk about planes flying. We talk about them crashing.”

Flying Planes Unpredictability

Author:Tibor Kalman

“The Web is a compelling new medium being put to all kinds of uses, by everyone from banks to Cub Scouts to flying saucer cults. That said, it can also be a powerful folly amplifier.”

Kind Said Use Powerful Flying Mediums All Kinds Folly Compelling Cult Cubs Flying Saucers Amplifiers Cub Scout

Author:Paul Saffo

“There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.”

Connections Flying Eggs Logical

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.”

Years Has Beens States Sleep Forget Air Flying Dust Grain Floating Migrate

Book:'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

“Don't do anything to stop a woman from flying; let fate take its course.”

Courses Fate Flying

Author:Amado Nervo

“All consumption should be local. No food products need to be transported over hundreds of miles to market. All commercial fishing should be abolished. If local communities need to fish the fish should be caught individually by hand. We need to stop flying, stop driving cars, and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.”

Ifs Needs Should Hands Community Car Products Caught Fishes Driving Miles Flying Locals Fishing Vehicle Consumption Marine Local Community Driving Cars

Author:Paul Watson

“I believe there are unidentified flying objects, I'm just not sure who's driving.”

Believe I Believe Objects Driving Flying Not Sure

Author:Peter Jennings

“I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post.”

Way Writing Stills School Letters Flying Posts Hated Old Fashioned Old School Correspondence

Author:Vaginal Davis

“Flying is my favorite time in the world. When I'm sitting in a plane, it's amazing because it's quiet and there's no cell phones and no one to talk to you. It's my favorite time. I read all my scripts. I catch up on my movies. I sleep. It's the best. There's no one telling you, "Time to go!"”

World Sleep Quiet Sitting My Favorite Scripts Phones Flying Cells Planes Cell Phone

Author:Priyanka Chopra

“My own sense and taste in 3D films has been I don't really like it when it feels like it's a gimmick and it's coming at me, it's flying at me.”

Feels Has Beens Film My Own Taste Flying Gimmicks

Author:James Mangold

“I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off.”

Ifs Bigs Found Bird Tiny Flying Big Business Bird Flying

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“I've met some serious aliens in my life, for sure. I'm sure you've seen a UFO. Haven't all of us seen something flying in the sky, and it's at some random time of night that doesn't make sense, and it's not the shape of a plane? I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person.”

Ifs Knows Feels Persons Night Space Sky Havens Serious Mets Shapes Flying Aliens Make Sense Planes Ufo

Author:Alicia Keys

“It's really an amazing feeling because you're flying in a car that's on stage and to be this age also, and in the theater and then with a huge audience of 1,800 people backing you up and cheering you on. It's a really amazing feeling.”

People Feelings Age Audience Stage Car Huge Theater Flying Cheer Really Amazing

Author:Ellen Marlow

“We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.”

Asks Late Instruments Speed Flying Clock Too Late Slow Down

Book:Themes and episodes

Source: Themes and episodes

“Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.”

Miracle Flying Flying Saucers

Author:Terence McKenna

“But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers that come along every thousand years or so to mess up the mess that has been created and try and send people off on another tack. And the way to do this is to look at the abysses that confront man as species and individuals and try to unify them. And I think that psilocybin offers a way out because it allows a dialogue with the over-mind. You won't read about it in "Scientific American" or anywhere else. You will carry it out.”

“You can't get anywhere flying under the radar.”

Flying Radar

Author:Grant Cardone

“Turtles hate heights. They don't even like being a few feet off the ground. It's the main reason they have resisted evolution for so long-fear of heights. Turtle thinking goes thus: Sure, first our scales turn into feathers and the next thing you know we're flying and chirping and perching on trees. We've seen it happen. Thanks, but we're staying right here in the mud where we belong. You're not going to see us flying full-tilt boogie into a sliding glass door.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Long Reason Happens Hate Turns Next Doors Tree Feet Evolution Glasses Flying Scales Thanks Height Staying Mud Feathers Turtles Tilt Boogie Feet Off The Ground

Author:Christopher Moore

“The future is flying home. That's the immediate future. But long-distance future, I plan on being back. I'm not going to end my time here with that loss.”

Long Ends Home Loss Plans Distance Flying My Time Long Distance

Author:Pete Sampras

“To know about the movie [jack the giant Slayer], wow. It's an adventure, there are so many special effects flying around. It's going to be really fun, definitely. I think there's something there for the whole family. There is something you can really enjoy, and I think it's going to be a really fun, family film. I'm really excited.”

Thinking Knows Whole Film Fun Enjoy Special Effects Adventure Excited Flying Giants Wow Whole Family Special Effects Slayer Fun Family

Author:Eleanor Tomlinson

“I used to be very afraid of flying. It would creep me out and make me very tense and very uncomfortable, and I would sweat or even cry. I was very, very scared of dying, but I'm not anymore. Fears need to be indulged, in order to exist. I don't have much time to indulge in any fears.”

Needs Used Order Dying Cry Scared Flying Used To Be Uncomfortable Sweat Indulge Tense Creeps Indulge In

Author:Franka Potente

“Sometimes you do things for personal reasons. I made a very personal movie in We Are Marshall. I was afraid of flying, for a long time, and that's a movie about a plane crash.”

Long Made Sometimes Reason Long Time Flying Planes Crash Plane Crashes

Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol

“I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.”

Want I Can Reason My Own Percent Flying Helicopters

Author:LL Cool J

“I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.”

Way Writing Ideas Courses Machines Drawing Flying Amazed Flying Machines

Author:Bill Gates

“Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.”

Way Moving Car Flying Efficient Flying Cars

Author:Bill Gates

“Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.”

Flying Fiddle

Author:Charley Pride

“I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.”

Thinking Believe Stills Mother Belief Achieve Example Flying Planes Crash

Author:Joe Bastianich

“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.”

Guy Fighting House Common Audience Saws Cutting Crazy Drink Blow Circles Flying Shooting Bottles Bricks Joints Horns

Author:Louis Armstrong

“There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.”

Flying Houston

Author:Albert Brooks

“The new millennium sucks! What a disappointment! What's the difference between the old millennium and the new millennium? Nothing! It's the same load of crap with a '2' in the front. When I was a kid, I am old enough so that when I was a kid, I looked forward to the new millennium. When I was young, I said, 'I'm gonna live through a change! A massive change! Things are gonna be different! Things are gonna be great!' Screwed again! No flying cars! No flying cars!”

Said Different Enough Kids Young Differences Car Fronts Disappointment Flying Different Things Massive Load Crap Millennium Flying Cars Massive Change

Author:Lewis Black

“You might be a redneck if the antenna on your truck is a danger to low flying airplanes.”

Ifs Might Danger Lows Flying Airplane Truck Redneck You Might Be A Redneck If Antenna

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.”

Mind Spiritual Form Political Economic Goes On Battle Intellectual Various Flying Crucial Bullets Symbolic Battlefields Literal Weaponry

Author:Cornel West

“So we have that, where there are moments where it's just Nic Cage and Amber Heard and you're in the car with them and it's not stuff flying at your face but you're literally sitting in the backseat. You're sitting there and it's just sort of interesting. At the same time we're going to throw cars and guns and bullets and frogs and naked people at your face because it's fun and that's the roller coaster. We do write some things for 3-D.”

People Writing Moments Faces Fun Stuff Interesting Heard Car Gun Sitting Flying Naked Your Face Bullets Cages Frogs Amber Roller Coaster Coasters Backseat

Author:Todd Farmer

“Well, it's sort of funny to try and get that balance between just accepting the reality of my friend [co-star Satya Bhabha] flying in from the ceiling of the theatre and like starting to do a dance with demon hipster chicks. It's like, so how do we react when he throws fireballs? Are we surprised? Does this happen a lot?”

Trying Wells Doe Reality Happens Stars Accepting Balance My Friends Starting Theatre Flying Demon Ceilings Chicks Hipster Satya

Author:Alison Pill

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