Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
~By Harold Wilson ~
Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way.
~By John Hull ~
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
~By Mel Gibson ~
I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided.
~By Ray Harryhausen ~
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
~By Tatyana Ali ~
Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.
~By John Yoo ~
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
~By Lord Kelvin ~
They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.
~By Hans Blix ~
There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.
~By Umberto Eco ~
And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.
~By Reba McEntire ~
When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.
~By Judith Viorst ~
I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.
~By Jane Horrocks ~
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
~By Simone Weil ~
You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
~By Rachel Hunter ~
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
~By Max Lerner ~
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.
~By Bill Shuster ~
There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.
~By Henry Reed ~
In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking.
~By John Strachan ~
It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.
~By Vincent Bugliosi ~
Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.
~By Mel Gibson ~
After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat.
~By Mark Kelly ~
I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose.
~By Michael Musto ~
Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.
~By Richard Branson ~
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur.
~By John Corry ~
I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
~By Black Elk ~
To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.
~By Jonathan Frid ~
Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.
~By Roy Wood ~
I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt.
~By Ted Lindsay ~
I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!
~By Hilary Duff ~
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
~By Umberto Eco ~
Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.
~By Greg Norman ~
Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
~By Betty Buckley ~
History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
~By Bennie Thompson ~
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.
~By Laurel Clark ~
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage.
~By Loretta Swit ~
I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.
~By Helen Reddy ~
Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.
~By Daniela Pestova ~
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
~By Mary Wilson Little ~
I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.
~By David Neeleman ~
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
~By Jack Herer ~
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.
~By Bessie Coleman ~
But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.
~By Jim Walsh ~
If you're lying, you're lying.
~By John C. Maxwell ~
The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
~By Patrick Murray ~
I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.
~By Mark Hamill ~
We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.
~By Terry Gilliam ~
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
~By Roald Dahl ~
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
~By Otto Hahn ~
I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
~By Bjork ~
I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!
~By Danielle Steel ~
I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.
~By Jeffrey Dean Morgan ~
In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.
~By Mary Garden ~
So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'
~By George W. Bush ~
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
~By George B. McClellan ~
I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.
~By Puff Daddy ~
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
~By Alexander Woollcott ~
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.
~By William Vickrey ~
Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.
~By Pappy Boyington ~
True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
~By Jim Capaldi ~
I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.
~By Jonathan Franzen ~
Time is flying never to return.
~By Virgil ~
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
~By Albert Ellis ~
Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
~By Lech Walesa ~
Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration.
~By Paul Hawken ~
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
~By Barbara Steele ~
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
~By Jean Genet ~
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
~By Marguerite Young ~
I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.
~By John Poindexter ~
To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.
~By Peter Schuyler ~
You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~
When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
~By Vince Cable ~
In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow.
~By Ron Kind ~
I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know?
~By Don Novello ~
The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.
~By Denzel Washington ~
As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.
~By Robin Hayes ~
If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
~By Eamon de Valera ~
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
~By Robert Benchley ~
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
~By Groucho Marx ~
People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.
~By Nigel Kneale ~
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
~By Jim Rohn ~
I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.
~By Puff Daddy ~
Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.
~By Paul Martin ~
They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
~By Dean Koontz ~
Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.
~By Isaac Yeffet ~
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
~By Andrew Wyeth ~
Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
~By Woody Allen ~
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