Feathers Quotes - Page 3

• I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.

  Yves Rossy

  Technology, Bird, Sometimes

  "'Jetman' lives the dream of flying". www.cnn.com. December 4, 2011.

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• Feathers predate birds.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Bird

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• A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.

  Mary Jo Bang

  Children, Grief, Men

  Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Lying, Heaven, Bed

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• If honesty was like water that people couldn't live without it, the world which became heavier due to the endless lies would be just light like a feather!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Honesty, Lying, Light

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• I may have a feather duster down my pants.

  Johnny Depp

  May, Pants

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• After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.

  Elton John

  Religious, Angel, Glasses

  Song: Since God Invented Girls, Album: Reg Strikes Back

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• The basic and essential human is the woman.

  Orson Welles

  Essentials, Humans

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• Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

  Larry Holmes

  Light, Wings, Boxing

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• If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.

  Plautus

  Gratitude, Wrath, People

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• Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap.

  George Sampson

  Arrows, Style, Caps

  George Sampson (2013). “Seven Essays”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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• It took the whole of Creation to produce my foot, my each feather: now I hold Creation in my foot.

  Ted Hughes

  Feet, Sophistry, Creation

  'Hawk Roosting' (1960)

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• If you want the 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.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Light, World

  'Gems from Spurgeon' (1859) p. 74

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• They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Dark, Past

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.339

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• Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

  Anne Rice

  Literature, Possibility, Endless

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• What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally and see the textures of green mountainside change under wind and sun, or the fog move soft feathers down the gulches, or the last sunset on the continent redden the sky beyond the ridge, we have our money's worth. We have been too efficient at destruction; we have left our souls too little space to breathe in. Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

  Wallace Stegner

  Moving, Sunset, Space

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• When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone's feathers people in the movie business are today.

  Joe Dante

  War, People, Zombie

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• I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.

  Anne Heche

  People, Ruffles, Taught

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• Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me.

  Will Smith

  Distance, Night, Wings

  Song: Afro Angel, Album: Willennium

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• I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art of plucking feathers without killing the bird. It's time they realized the bird just doesn't have any feathers left.

  Ronald Reagan

  Art, Cutting, Bird

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.179, Best Books on

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• There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness of Creation, God had seen fit to introduce soiling, twisting, rampaging, Man.

  Maria McCann

  Men, Tree, Frozen

  Maria McCann (2010). “The Wilding”, p.263, Faber & Faber

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• Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

  Allen Ginsberg

  Democracies Have, Political, Democracy

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• Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

  Edith Wharton

  Life, Giving, Bed

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• The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Angel, Men

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.327

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• He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Mother, Conquer The World, Roosters

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.353, Hamilton Books

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