I’ve learned a lot on the fly, and I think, actually, my academic and management consulting background has enabled me to quickly pick up on a lot of disciplines. – Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly. – Lucinda Williams
One of the reasons I moved to New York was because I thought it would be easier to say no to dreadful scripts. I wouldn’t be tempted to fly back and do them. There are some things even I won’t do. – Kathryn Harrold
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below. – John McCrae
You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it’s in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they’re giving me. – Lee Hazlewood
After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland. – Menachem Begin
As you get older, it’s harder to maintain your weight and to fly through the air for those routines. It’s also the lifestyle; you train seven to eight hours a day, five to six days a week. – Kerri Strug
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly. – Leonardo da Vinci
The list of what I want to do is so long, I would need a few lifetimes to achieve them. For instance, I would like to fly small planes, maybe over the Ganges one day. – Kalpana Chawla
With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I’d play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It’s a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by. – John Bonham
I’d much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I’d rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people. – Jennifer Saunders
It is hard to imagine Andre Le Notre laying out the exquisite landscape designs for Vaux-le-Vicomte, and later the magnificent Chateau de Versailles, with no high hill to stand on, no helicopter to fly in, and no drone to show him the complexities of the terrain. Yet he did, and with extreme precision, accuracy, and high style. – Martha Stewart
We sat here during Irene in ’99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by. – John Harrison
You’ve got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That’s what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free. – John Oates
We paint a slow picture. You can see the brushstrokes. We don’t get to the point, and sometimes when we do, our readers don’t notice, in fact. It’s so couched in nuance, it can fly right over a person’s head. ‘What was that you said? I couldn’t quite make it out.’ – Lydia Millet
Actors come in, and they have their own take on things, and you have to adjust on the fly to make sure everything still works structurally and dramatically. – John Requa
‘Scalped’ No. 1 was only the third comic script I’d ever written. I really learned a lot about writing on the fly with that series. – Jason Aaron
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. – Marcus Aurelius
The Will Smith that you see in movies is exactly the same as Will Smith in real life. Except for when he plays a superhero, because the real Will Smith can’t fly. He can only hover. – Kurt Fuller
And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it’s attached to this finger and that’s what will keep it there. And I’m looking up at it, so there’s no question but that that beret is going to fly. – Mary Tyler Moore
The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though. – Kit Harington
When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward. – Joseph Monninger