#flies

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing. ↗

— Joan Jett

#because #butterflies #complacent #good #good thing

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#away #flies #horse #i #jack

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#better #feel #flies #happening #how

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#gods #kill #their #us #wanton

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game. ↗

— John Starks

#focused #game #i #i remember #locker

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#catch #cobwebs #flies #laws #like

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#couple #couple times #dizzy #does #drive

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies. ↗

— Brendan Gill

#butterflies #cloud #cram #facts #full

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#bird #flies #generally #happy #human

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#mundane #the-flies #zeus #life