There is a trick to flying. The angels told me. " He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as a human being. When you are human, you discover that there is great power in hating the earth. And it can almost make you fly. But it never will. " I had frowned, not quite understanding him. "So, what's the trick?" "Love the sky.
If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.
The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly in the air, it makes itself a bird. If it wants to go to Harvard, it makes itself a man. The strangest thing of all is that the germ plasm that we carry around within us has done all those things. There was a time, hundreds of millions of years ago, when it was making fish. Then. . . amphibia. . . reptiles. . . mammals, and now it's making men.
Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle?
I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great.
I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me. '
It's too cold outside for angels to fly.
But, it only takes one success to erase all the failures. When an opportunity presents itself, the only true failure takes place if one doesn't try at all. My wings weren't ready to fly this time, but, next time, you'll see. They all will see.
My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.
And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a degree.
I attempt from love's sickness to fly.
Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.
This is who I am Escapist Paradise Seeker Farewell, time to fly Out of sight Out of time Away from all lies
Right. Vampires. But how do they get inside?" "They fly". . . "We dont fly," Clary felt impelled to point out. "No," Jace agreed. "We dont fly. We break and enter. ". . . "Flying sounds like more fun. " -Clary & Jace, pg. 258-
He that alone would wise and mighty be,Commands that others love as well as he. Love as he lov'd! - How can we soar so high?-He can add wings when he commands to fly. Nor should we be with this command dismay'd;He that examples gives will give his aid:For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.
I am one of those people who is never satisfied,. . . When I was a little kid, I made a spaceship out of a refrigerator box, and I was pissed off that it wouldn't fly. Couldn't be happy with it. It was pretty cool, too.
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.
Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it