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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.»
«Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.»
«I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.»
«The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings»
«The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.»
«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.»
«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»