Fly/maggots

Famous quotes containing the words fly and/or maggots:

“I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Genghis Khan, in his usual jodhpurs accessorized with whip, straddled a canvas chair and gloated upon the fairyland he had built. Journalists, photographers, secretaries, sycophants, script girls, and set dressers milled and stirred around him, activity ... irresistibly reminiscent of the movement of maggots upon rotting meat.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)