I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.

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

A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive.

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.

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

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here.

To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It's standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I'm like in one of my own pictures.

Money just draws flies.