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Letter "O" » on the fly
«All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.»
«One night in Pittsburgh, thirty-thousand fans gave me a standing ovation when I caught a hot dog wrapper on the fly.»
«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.»
Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
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Critic,
Poet)
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Keywords:
afraid,
came,
come,
come to,
edge,
edge in,
edging,
flew,
fly by,
fly on,
Fly The,
How to Fly,
on the fly,
Over the Edge,
pushed,
push on,
push up,
said,
the edge
«Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.»
Author: Langston Hughes
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Essayist,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Dreams
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Keywords:
bird,
broken,
die,
dreams,
fly,
flying bird,
fly by,
fly on,
Fly The,
How to Fly,
let fly,
on the fly,
on the wing,
winged
«I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.»
Author: Douglas Adams
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Writer)
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Keywords:
deadlines,
fly,
fly by,
fly on,
Fly The,
How to Fly,
on the fly,
sound,
sounder,
soundest,
whoosh,
whooshing
«The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(
Dramatist,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
birds,
faith,
fly,
flying bird,
fly by,
fly on,
Fly The,
How to Fly,
on the fly,
on the wing,
perfect,
reason,
simply,
wings
«The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
appear,
fly,
fly by,
fly high,
fly on,
Fly The,
Get High,
higher,
Higher And Higher,
higher up,
High C,
How to Fly,
on the fly,
smaller,
soar,
soared,
those
«He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
climb,
climb on,
dance,
First Ones,
fly,
flying,
fly by,
fly on,
Fly The,
How to Fly,
learn,
one day,
on the fly,
run,
stand,
The Climb,
To Fly,
walk
«The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.»
«If you keep your mouth shut, the flies won't get in»
Author: Spanish Proverb
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Keywords:
by mouth,
flies,
fly by,
fly on,
Fly The,
get,
get in,
How to Fly,
keep,
mouth,
mouthed,
on the fly,
On the Mouth,
shut,
shutting,
shut in