Eagles Quotes - Page 13

• I remember back in 1994 when the Eagles charged more than $100 for tickets. They said, 'We ain't Pearl Jam.' That's back when records were selling and the Eagles had sold just about as many as anyone on the planet. And years later we're still charging less than them.

  Eddie Vedder

  Years, Tickets, Jam

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• No, my first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got. I wish that I only would have done the SLAYER eagle and not the dragons ´coz I like tribals that stand out from a distance. Like you could be a snowblind in the concert and you are still gonna see it. That´s why I like about it.

  Kerry King

  Distance, Dragons, Wish

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• I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.

  Lou Reed

  Views, Style, Elements

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• There were lots of things that I recognized from my experience with Eagle Claw and Wu Hao, and here was the combination of the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole tamale in one.

  Lou Reed

  Tamales, Combination, Claws

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• The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.

  Meredith Brooks

  Groups, Faces, Fleetwood Mac

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• I have been trying to heal my body from surgeries over the last five years - from my broken leg, tonsillectomy, wisdom teeth, eagle syndrome and hip. Needless to say, it's been a very painful process.

  John Michael Montgomery

  Years, Broken, Trying

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• There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in his eyrie, high aloft; they are like the strong mountaineer, who has trodden the virgin snow, who has breathed the fresh, free air of the Alpine regions, and therefore his sinews are braced, and his limbs are vigorous; these are they who do great exploits, being mighty men, men of renown.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Strong, Men, Air

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 18), 1895.

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• Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

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• Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.

  A. O. Scott

  Pigs, Bird, Tiny

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• Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.

  Francois Arago

  Men, Air, Effort

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• All I cared about was the music, like hearing Townes [ Van Zandt] talking about "For the sake of the song"; it's all that mattered. In spite of me a couple of things happened, mainly the Eagles and Seven Bridges Road. That certainly helped me survive. Joan Baez, Rita Coolidge, and Ian Matthews did it.

  Steve Young

  Song, Couple, Talking

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• Remain a witness to your emotions as if from a great distance an eagles eye view

  Rajneesh

  Distance, Eye, Views

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• Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven.

  James Montgomery

  Flower, Eye, Light

  James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir”, p.162

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• I'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.

  Denise Levertov

  Women, Home, Knowing

  Denise Levertov (1993). “Evening Train”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold,
  And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes,
  For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies,
  With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold.

  William Butler Yeats

  Children, Heart, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Ambition, Rocks, Reptiles

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• And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove.Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Bible, Spirit

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• Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.

  Paul Theroux

  Dying, Nests, Prey

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.295, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can still sing most Eagles songs, even though I never bought a record and never liked the band.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Band, Records

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.

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• I think The Eagles single-handedly destroyed country music - well, now, country music has been killed by rap crossovers, so it's hard to say. Maybe we can just agree that money killed country music.

  John Doe

  Country, Rap, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls "mounting up with wings as eagles" to the "heavenly places" in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Jesus, Wings, Soul

  HANNAH WHITALL SMITH (1952). “THE CHRISTIANS SECRET OF A HAPPY LIFE”

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• Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Men, Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.206, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Moving, Technology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.419, Harvard University Press

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• The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.

  Lewis Nordan

  Morning, Rain, Autumn

  Lewis Nordan (2003). “Wolf Whistle”, p.149, Algonquin Books

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• THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.

  Laird Barron

  Epic, Scope, Myth

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