Feathers Quotes - Page 4

• Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

  Shania Twain

  Funny, Life, Reality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind.
  Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind.
  What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought?
  This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought.

  Francis Quarles

  Fire, Wind, Soul

  Francis Quarles, William Walker Wilkins (1866). “Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.15

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• Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and
  that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of
  it myself.

  Groucho Marx

  Dirty, Thinking, Stories

  Groucho Marx (2000). “The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx”, Vintage

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• A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Funny, Turkeys

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• In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

  Amos Oz

  Bird, Way, Sharon

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• Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

  Paul Eldridge

  Past, Bird, Triumph

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• In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!

  Angie Dickinson

  Morning, Giving, Making Love

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• I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Mothers Day, Children

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• They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

  Owen Hart

  Mind, Together, Glitter

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• While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Butterfly, Wings

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.69, Anchor

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• Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar we get feathers in our mouth. It's worth it. What pleasure to phrase an idea, even in child's words, slowly, and sail it across the gulf in another language to a different-speaking human being!

  Richard Bach

  Children, Ideas, Different

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• Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Self, Doe

  1974 Gather Together In My Name, ch.6.

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• I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives and scissors -- all bear the trace of someone's fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Sweet, Ocean, Glasses

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• I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?

  Boy George

  Mean, Stuff, Speedos

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy

  Charles Dickens

  New Year, Angel, Light

  Charles Dickens (2016). “A Christmas Carol”, p.85, Charles Dickens

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• The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Travel, Interesting, Bedroom

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• Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.

  Pauline Kael

  Hair, Should Have, Play

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• Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

  Aldo Leopold

  Awareness, Process, Trading

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.24, Oxford University Press

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• I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be anything. Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa, who knows?

  Geri Halliwell

  Wearing Black, Sunglasses, Naked

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• If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

  Anne Michaels

  Stars, Blood, Want

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Skin Divers”, p.20, McClelland & Stewart

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• Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

  Jean Paul

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Time

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• If I hold a twenty pound weight, I cannot detect a fly landing on it because the least detectable difference in the stimulus is half a pound. On the other hand, if i hold a feather, a fly landing on it makes a great difference. Obviously then, in order to be able to tell the differences in exertion one must first reduce the exertion. Finer and finer performance is possible only if the sensitivity, that is, the ability to feel the difference is improved.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Hands, Order, Differences

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• A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

  Charles Lamb

  Law, Ears, Pistols

  1833 Of puns. Last Essays of Elia,'Popular Fallacies', no.9.

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• At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken glass they could court light....still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again.

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Air, Blood

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.220, Pan Macmillan

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• You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Running

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