"Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw."
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"Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it."
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"My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way."
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"You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love."
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"I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair."
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"I've been on planes flying through thunder storms when the pilot says, 'ladies and gentlemen, we tried to fly around it but we can't so it's going to be rough'.And when a pilot says it's going to be bad, it's going to be rough. And you say to youself, boy, I could have got the train."
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"English literature is a flying fish."
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"You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!"
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"Time is flying never to return."
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"Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy."
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"I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground."
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"UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You say, why is that so? Well, because we know what the hell we're looking at!"
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"A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude."
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"No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale."
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"Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it."
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"My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them."
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"I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me."
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"Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish."
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"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."
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"I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go."
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