#fly

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced. ↗

— Sting

#balanced #briefly #generally #i #i am

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#chiefly #composer #exposure #false #i

We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural. ↗

— Picabo Street

#feels #fly #little #surprised #unnatural

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric. ↗

— Hilary Swank

#fly #how #learning #me

Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job done. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#could #done #fighters #flying #formation

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#butterfly #counts #enough #moments #months

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King. ↗

— George Takei

#fly #i #king #luther #marched

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#contrary #iraqi #kurdish #no-fly #people

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#apple #celibate #confined #dies #dwells

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen. ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

#back #being #desperately #despite #flying