A Quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Fly Want Worm

Quote Author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American - Novelist
July 3, 1860 - August 17, 1935

You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle

Cecily von Ziegesar

Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.

Eileen Collins

But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's work is done.

Bliss Perry

I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either.

Martine McCutcheon

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

Patrick F. McManus

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Alice Walker

If you want to fly higher, first you have to spread your wings.. The world’s big and there are a lot of places you can fly^^

Minzy

I wanted to fly when I was little. I still want to fly.

Kendall Jenner

The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.

Laetitia Pilkington

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

Henry Ward Beecher

I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "Finish your eggs first.

Lorraine Hansberry

The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That's religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn't want to give those up.