Feathers Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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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• Many books belong to sunshine, and should be read out of doors. Clover, violets, and hedge roses breathe from their leaves; they are most lovable in cool lanes, along field paths, or upon stiles overhung by hawthorn, while the blackbird pipes, and the nightingale bathes its brown feathers in the twilight copse.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Book, Twilight, Sunshine

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.99

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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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• England have players who can rattle anyone's feathers

  Michael Owen

  Player, England

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• Oh, my God. It hit me like a tsunami then: how perfect he was for me, how he was everything I could possibly hope for, as a friend, boyfriend - maybe even more. He was it for me. There would be no more looking. I really, really loved him, with a whole new kind of love I'd never felt before, something that made every other kind of love I'd ever felt just seem washed out and wimpy in comparison. I loved him with every cell in my body, every thought in my head, every feather in my wings, every breath in my lungs. And air sacs.

  James Patterson

  Air, Cells, Wings

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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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• Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.

  Jean Hersey

  Somewhere Else, Want, Size

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.

  Annabelle Wallis

  Drama, People, Tudors

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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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• Western movies always seemed to show Indian women washing clothes at the creek and men with a tomahawk or spear in their hands, adorned with lots of feathers. That image has stayed in some people's minds. Many think we're either visionaries, `noble savages,' squaw drudges or tragic alcoholics. We're very rarely depicted as real people who have greater tenacity in terms of trying to hang on to our culture and values system than most people.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Real, Men, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Flower, Locks, Done

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• I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence.

  Orson Welles

  Sex, Thinking, Luxury

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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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• 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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• Birdes of a feather will flocke togither.

  Martial

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• November’s days are thirty: November’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few care for the mixture of earth and water, Twig, leaf, flint, thorn, Straw, feather, all that men scorn, Pounded up and sodden by flood, Condemned as mud.

  Edward Thomas

  Nature, Dirty, Men

  Edward Thomas (2012). “Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.28, Other Press, LLC

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