“ I just got out of the hospital. i was in a speed-reading accident. i hit a bookmark and flew across the room. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
- 2.3K
“ We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window. ”
- Stansfield Turner- Copy
- 95
“ 'Twas Game Six of the Series when out of the sky, Flew Sergio's parachute, a Met banner held high. His goal was to spur our home team to success, Burst Beantown's balloon claiming Sox were the best. ”
- Phyllis Orlikoff Flug- Copy
- 2.1K
“ You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew. ”
- Stephen Crane- Copy
- 640
“ 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- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Today a man discovered gold and fame, Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame, One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend for Ioday found a friend. ”
- Helen Barker Parker- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. ”
- Dorothea Brande- Copy
- 788
“ Come to the edge, He said. They said, "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," He said. They came. He pushed them… and they flew. ”
- Guillaume Apollinaire- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The Wright Brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. ”
- Charles F. Kettering- Copy
- 3K
“ Their eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pt, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes. ”
- S. J. Perelman- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Their the waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pate, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes. ”
- S. J. Perelman- Copy
- 2K
“ In 1946, while still an adolescent, I was to sign my name on the other side of the sky during a fantastic realistico-imaginary journey. That day, as I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work. ”
- Yves Klein- Copy
- 1.3K
“ When my mother died, I was 17 years old, and I literally got on a plane and flew to America, and didn't really come back. I have been back to Ireland in short spurts, just skimming the surface of my formative years. ”
- Anjelica Huston- Copy
- 2.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.3K
- 1