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About 99 percent of the black flies that fly around your face are females. They act like the mosquito in that they require a blood meal.

According to the laws of aerodynamics, the bumblebee can't fly either, but the bumblebee doesn't know anything about the laws of aerodynamics, so it goes ahead and flies anyway.

It probably will be that way most of the season. With our style of offense, it won't be three or four yards and a cloud of dust. A lot of times it will be all or nothing. We have to use our quickness and finesse on offense. We've got to be like flies on a cow's back. We just have to pester you and then make that big play.

It's not like people are going to start dropping like flies from this level of radiation.

Does Sun still want customers to choose Solaris over OpenSolaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Absolutely. But like Steve Ballmer before him, McNealy realizes that he'll 'catch more flies with honey, than he will with vinegar',

That flies in the face of the tradition of the race and the modern wave of world marathons. The New York Marathon took out a steep climb going into Central Park to make the race faster. Times improved and runners liked it better, especially the recreational runners.

I've learned never to underestimate the sense of humor of a kid, ... But does it matter if the joke flies over a kid's head? No. As long as my girlfriend thinks it's funny, it stays.

I still believe she has a case. Just the way the proceedings went down I don't think flies with her constitutional rights.

I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote 'The Underland Chronicles'... well, once you start naming cockroaches, you lose your edge.

They charter a plane, usually an Airbus. They start out in their own countries and fly to London where they board the Airbus. The plane then stops in Shannon to pick up the Irish contingent and the whole European group flies to Toronto on the same plane.

They charter a plane, usually an Airbus, ... They start out in their own countries and fly to London where they board the Airbus. The plane then stops in Shannon to pick up the Irish contingent and the whole European group flies to Toronto on the same plane.

They will want to know why the Government has deprived them, and their families, of this opportunity. This flies in the face of everything the country is trying to achieve on skills. Computer literacy has to be a given in a globally competitive economy.

Sleepless nights. Other nights you wake up sweating because you're nervous and you don't know what's going to happen the next day. You can't control that stuff -- all you can control is what you do and how you perform. It's kind of inevitable that you're going to think about it. You see buddies getting cut and you see guys dropping like flies and you don't know for sure if it's you that's going to be next.

Evolutionarily, germ cells are one of the most ancient cell types, needed by every type of animal to reproduce. Their developmental program is very similar, whether we are talking fruit flies or humans. As a result, these findings could eventually help us understand and treat defects in germ cell development that lead to human infertility and disease.

I had my flies ripped so often that eventually, in public, I had to have a side zip... can you imagine anything more humiliating than that?

If our father would not have been a strict disciplinarian, our house would have been Lord of the Flies .

If you keep your mouth shut, the flies won't get in

In the face of challenge,who do you choose to be?The one who stalls and stagnates,or the one who flies free?

In television, if I write that Matthew Fox flies up around the island so he can see how big it is, we have to actually shoot that. In a comic book, you write it, somebody draws it and there it is. No budget, no actors. That frees you up to really do some outside-the-box storytelling.

In response to a ridiculous statement by Edith: " I've gotta quote for you, Edith. --'A bird that always flies in the fog is called a dingbat.'

I really felt like it turned into Lord of the Flies or something at the end.

He's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it

He's so fast. He gets that puck, and he just flies with it.

He's very low-key and flies under the radar screen.

He's the pitcher on their staff that really flies under the radar. We know him well because he pitches American Legion. But he's really underrated. He's tough, competitive and he's a winner.

Good thing the ball flies here. Didn't you hit two in Philly? Every two in Philly should count as one.

He's got a nice, easy swing. The ball flies off his bat.

Carson's a pretty good team. They're a lot different than Hug is. Hug is so big; Carson flies around pretty good and they're very active on defense. It took a while to get adjusted to that, but the kids came back and gave a great effort. This was a great win for us.

Carson's a pretty good team, ... They're a lot different than Hug is. Hug is so big; Carson flies around pretty good and they're very active on defense. It took a while to get adjusted to that, but the kids came back and gave a great effort. This was a great win for us.

You can't treat the Congress like they're a bunch of buzzing flies around your head, ... They're your bosses because they represent the American taxpayers.

These flies hatch in the early spring and late fall. It's a dry fly that is usually fished pretty small. They're really beautiful bugs.

The flies surprised us with how close they were in many ways.

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.

O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy; And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy

''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

The busy man has few idle visitors, to the boiling pot, the flies come out.

This concern that a two-thirds majority will be abused by the ANC flies in the face of the facts of history,

Tart words make no friends; a spoonful or honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar

The first glass you drive in like a stake, the second flies like a crake, and after the third they fly like wee little birds.