Feathers Quotes - Page 18

• England have players who can rattle anyone's feathers

  Michael Owen

  Player, England

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• A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.

  Charley Harper

  Flirting, Dancing, Passionate

  Charley Harper (1994). “Beguiled by the wild: the art of Charley Harper”, Flower Valley Pr

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• Winning awards is great. Everyone wants to put a feather in their cap but for me the ultimate validation comes when you're standing on top of a peak and the weather's moving in and you're trying to manage logistics with your client, whether its food, water, shelter, and really there's only one constant out there: I know the last person I'm going to get to take care of is myself, so my gear has got to work. I take a lot of pride in knowing Eddie Bauer makes the best gear out there.

  Reggie Crist

  Moving, Pride, Winning

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• The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Dark, Moon

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.186, Chapman and Hall

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• I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows,
  waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home
  and stuff me so full of our infected child
  that I turn invisible, but married,
  at last.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Children, Home

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.254, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when it happens? That creation? That magic blending? I might say we became figures in a mesmerized dance before the rocking talisman of the moon, starting slow, so slow... a pair of feathers drifting through clear liquid substance of sky... gradually accelerating, faster and faster and finally into photon existence of pure light... as my whole straining body burst like fluid electricity into hers.

  Ken Kesey

  Sex, Moon, Sky

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• I testify
  to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven
  and walls of colour,
  the colonnades of jasper.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Wall, Rainbow, Poetry

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, New Directions Publishing

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• Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived, as well as those introduced because of the African slave trade, are completely obliterated by the term. Hispanic is nothing more than a concession made by the U. S. legislature when they saw they couldn't get rid of us. If we won't go away, why not at least Europeanize us, make us presentable guests at the dinner table, take away our feathers and rattles and civilize us once and for all.

  Ana Castillo

  Giving, Diversity, Going Away

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• Birdes of a feather will flocke togither.

  Martial

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• To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Hate, Voice, Hopeful

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lying, Men, Iron

  "The Curse of Chalion". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2001.

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• Le geai pare   des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Peacock

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• What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather.

  Herman Melville

  Fall, Character, Voice

  Herman Melville (1971). “Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition”, p.69, Northwestern University Press

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• The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.

  Will Cuppy

  Males, Female, Embroidery

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Fall, Gay, Pride

  Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Pr

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• Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

  Rene Char

  Heart, Winter, Bird

  René Char (2004). “This Smoke that Carried Us: Selected Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.

  Thomas Reid

  Art, Tree, Finest

  Thomas Reid (1822). “The Works of Thomas Reid; with an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.367

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• If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Lying, Light, Want

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• It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly - I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads - The allotment of death.

  Ted Hughes

  Feet, Body, Sophistry

  'Hawk Roosting' (1960)

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• Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Character, Bird, Body

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• I eat so much chicken, I'm surprised I haven't grown feathers yet.

  Stone Cold Steve Austin

  Chickens, Havens

  Source: www.ew.com

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• Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
  [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.]
  [Alt., Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.]

  Plautus

  Wings, Flying, Aviation

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• It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage.
  [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit.
  Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

  Plautus

  Courage, Men, Clients

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• Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

  Plautus

  Men, Wrath, Giving

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• What a fine-looking thing is war!
  Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Song, War, Gold

  Douglas William Jerrold (1846). “The Chronicles of Clovernook: With Some Account of the Hermit of Bellyfulle”, p.142

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