Feathers Quotes - Page 13

• Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.

  Howard Rheingold

  Bird, Flying, Dinosaurs

  Source: medium.com

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• The person who has the most influence on me is my mother. Think of life as a flight where we fly higher and higher. If I were a bird that needs feathers to fly higher, I would regard my mother as my strongest feather.

  Jane Goodall

  Mother, Thinking, Bird

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• [President Donald Trump] is doing exactly what he promised to do.When you come in as an outsider and you own no one anything and you're going to disrupt a bureaucracy that is so entrenched that the - you've got to just get it out by root and branch, the tentacles are so deep and so clinging to power, to status, to money, to position, to each other, you're going to ruffle a lot of feathers.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Roots, President, Ruffles

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We are a people that let the small things just go by because it's a little uncomfortable and nobody wants to ruffle a feather. If you're quiet and you're watching it, you're just as much at fault as the person there. You're watching a victim be berated and you're standing by, knowing that feeling in your gut that it's wrong. Now you have a tool in order to change that.

  Don Iveson

  People, Feelings, Quiet

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I grew up watching old musicals and seeing Ginger Rogers wearing a beautiful fitted bodice that had ostrich feathers. I love how it moved when she danced. Theatrical pieces like that stayed with me. I wanted to grow up to wear those kinds of things.

  Gina Torres

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Kind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

  John Zakour

  Men, Wings, Born

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• Regardless of your chosen faith, at the end of your life's journey, your heart will be measured in two ways. One, the weight of your conscience must far outweigh the weight of a feather. Two, any impurities in your heart must weigh no more than one feather.

  Suzy Kassem

  Heart, Journey, Two

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Turtles hate heights. They don't even like being a few feet off the ground. It's the main reason they have resisted evolution for so long-fear of heights. Turtle thinking goes thus: Sure, first our scales turn into feathers and the next thing you know we're flying and chirping and perching on trees. We've seen it happen. Thanks, but we're staying right here in the mud where we belong. You're not going to see us flying full-tilt boogie into a sliding glass door.

  Christopher Moore

  Hate, Thinking, Doors

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• I love funky shoes and hats. I'm into large-brimmed fedoras with big feathers in fun colors like purple and lime-yellow. I just think hats add pizzazz to your outfits.

  Kim Kardashian

  Fun, Thinking, Shoes

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.

  John Lennon

  Thinking, Difficult, Workers

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We live here and now. Everything before and in other places is past. Mostly forgotten. What could, what should be done with all the time that lies ahead of us, open and unshaped, feather-light in its freedom and lead-heavy in its uncertainty? Is it a wish? Dream-like and nostalgic, to stand once again at that point in life and be able to take a completely different direction than the one that has made us who we are?

  Pascal Mercier

  Dream, Lying, Past

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• You might be a redneck if a full-grown ostrich has fewer feathers than your cowboy hat.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Cowboy, Ostriches

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• If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein; If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Queens, Kings, Pain

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Snow, Cooking

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• My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Smell, Giving

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• A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

  Gertrude Stein

  Light, Littles, Bugs

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Premium Collection: 60+ Poems, Tales & Plays in One Volume: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Psychology of Nations, Do Let Us Go Away…”, p.205, e-artnow

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• A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

  Kesha

  Thinking, Clothes, Teeth

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes and moulted feathers of dreams, the wrecks and sprats and shells and fishbones, whale-juice and moonshine and small salt fry dished up by the hidden sea.

  Dylan Thomas

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

  Dylan Thomas (1954). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

  Richard Bach

  Ideas, Perfect, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Heart, Dragons

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• A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers.

  Knut Hamsun

  Two, Long, Bird

  Knut Hamsun (1921). “Pan”

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• Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Ostriches, Ideas

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• It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

  Agatha Christie

  Secret, Sin, Caps

  Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage”

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• On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

  Tom Robbins

  Fall, People, Spices

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.19, Bantam

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• Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

  Terry Pratchett

  Differences, Erotic, Kinky

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Eric: A Novel of Discworld”, p.4, Harper Collins

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