Feathers Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• 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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• The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Smell, Religion, Looks

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”

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• My problems are as light as a feather because god carries them for me

  Skylar Laine

  Light, Problem, Carrie

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• Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you’re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer.

  Gay Hendricks

  Life Lesson, Hands, Numbers

  Gay Hendricks, Tinker Lindsay (2012). “The First Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery”, p.7, Hay House, Inc

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• Kinky sex involves the use of duck feathers. Perverted sex involves the whole duck.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Sex, Ducks, Use

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• Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard her. Her writing is from a deep, yet innocent, place and her point of view is just a bit off center. I am excited for her, she is standing at the beginning of her journey in this town, with all of it ahead of her. It reminds me of the first time I heard Beth Nielson-Chapman or Nanci Griffith. It's going to be fun to watch.

  Kathy Mattea

  Fun, Writing, Journey

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• Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful body and theirs all one.

  Mark Van Doren

  Beautiful, Wind, Water

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• We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm tear up at the root and topple like a crown, The pine crack at the base - we had to watch them all. The ash, the lovely cedar. We had to watch them fall. They went so softly under the loud flails of air, Before that fury they went down like feathers, With all the hundred springs that flowered in their hair, and all the years, endured in all the weathers - To fall as if they were nothing, as if they were feathers.

  May Sarton

  Strong, Spring, Fall

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• Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot

  Evelyn Waugh

  Boots

  'Scoop' (1938) bk. 1, ch. 1

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• Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Why do I move without wanting to, why am I not able to sit still? Why do I go rolling without wheels, flying without wings or feathers, and why did I decide to migrate if my bones live in Chile?

  Pablo Neruda

  Moving, Destiny, Wings

  Pablo Neruda (1991). “The book of questions”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive From the act of beauty, beauty of the act.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Sea, Ideas, Long

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• I ain't never loan friends money; I give it to 'em and I don't expect to get it back. Even when he says, "I'll pay you back," I never expect it. If he gives it back, then hey, that's a feather in his cap, but I don't expect to get it back.

  Mike Tyson

  Giving, Ems, Hey

  Interview with Earl Sweatshirt, genius.com.

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• Getting ready: the show girl scratches her breast and shakes out her feathers.

  Mason Cooley

  Girl, Scratches, Breasts

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• Contrary to popular belief, the Loch Ness Monster is not a dinosaur -- it's a huge mutant duck, a top researcher claims.... Most mainstream Nessie researchers consider Gluber's duck theory to be horse feathers and are trying to blast it out of the water.

  Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

  Horse, Ducks, Water

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• That tuft of jungle feathers,
  That animal eye,
  Is just what you say. That savage of fire,
  That seed,
  Have it your way. The world is ugly,
  And the people are sad.

  Wallace Stevens

  Eye, Animal, Fire

  Wallace Stevens (2012). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Men, Style

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• Stories have a tendency to seep across the shining membrane walls separating the universes. They whisper and flutter like the feathers of birds, from island to mainland and back again. They fall into dreams like rain.

  Kelly Barnhill

  Dream, Wall, Fall

  Kelly Barnhill (2012). “Iron Hearted Violet”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have a lot of those kinds of collections.

  Brit Marling

  Rocks, Shells, Serious

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.

  Edward Young

  Ocean, Tempest

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.8

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• Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.

  John Gould

  Book, Sky, Two

  John Gould (1873). “An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain”, p.4

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