Feathers Quotes - Page 7

• The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

  Nicholas Monsarrat

  Maturity, Heaven, London

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• When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough and I must begin again. I have to.

  Sarah Brightman

  Eye, Mind, Sound

  "The Trees They Grow So High". Notes in the album's CD booklet, 1988.

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• My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

  John Barrymore

  Today, Sun, Hot

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

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• The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Sex, School, Responsibility

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• ...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.

  Laini Taylor

  Wall, Flames, Wind

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• You have a right to have a feather duster. If anyone breaks in, you can make sure they're really clean as they're robbing your house.

  Ted Cruz

  House, Clean, Break

  Source: time.com

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• Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and I wore low-slung jeans with very high heels. Siouxsie and the Banshees had a lot to answer for. I was in a top hat with peacock feathers and thigh-high black boots. I was 17 -- old enough to know better.

  Helen McCrory

  Growing Up, Hair, High Heels

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• I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Shining, Crowds, Resolution

  Oliver Cromwell (1904). “The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell”

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• Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

  Michelle Malkin

  Bullying, Bird, Together

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• When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of the painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe.

  Charley Harper

  Lying, Artist, Color

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• A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.

  Plutarch

  Art, Voice, Body

  "Laconic Apothegms".

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

  Louisa May Alcott

  Strong, Believe, Self

  "Gather Together in My Name". Book by Maya Angelou, p. 17, 1974.

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• To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves that others may be decorated with their feathers.

  Owen Feltham

  Fire, Law, Two

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• Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

  Alexander Smith

  Pride, Chickens, Expensive

  Alexander Smith (1866). “Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household”, p.141

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• I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.

  Mia Sara

  Children, Thinking, Car

  "Truly Outrageous: Mia Sara (A.K.A. Sloane Peterson) on Fringe Jackets". Interview with Susan Cernek, www.glamour.com. September 16, 2009.

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• To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith at once little and ridiculous; and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Stars, Believe

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.37, e-artnow

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• I felt him there with me. The real David. My David. David, you are still here. Alive. Alive in me.Alive in the galaxy.Alive in the stars.Alive in the sky.Alive in the sea.Alive in the palm trees.Alive in feathers.Alive in birds.Alive in the mountains.Alive in the coyotes.Alive in books.Alive in sound.Alive in mom.Alive in dad.Alive in Bobby.Alive in me.Alive in soil.Alive in branches.Alive in fossils.Alive in tongues.Alive in eyes.Alive in cries.Alive in bodies.Alive in past, present and future. Alive forever.

  Kelly Easton

  Mom, Stars, Dad

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• The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages. I take in the torn fishnets, plaid mini-kilt, shiny, riveted breastplate with leather straps at the sides and a worn Great Temolo decal near the left shoulder. Her wings are a crazy black-and-white-checkered pattern, like they've been spray-painted at a body shop to look like hipster sneakers.

  Libba Bray

  Hipster, Crazy, Black And White

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.113, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Hot

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• I like things in my hair - big feather pieces.

  Kimberly Caldwell

  Hair, Pieces, Bigs

  "Kimberly Caldwell Reveals Her Style Secrets and Her Pick for American Idol Winner". Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. May 20, 2009.

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• The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Wings, Yellow

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.56, Hamilton Books

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• Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Beautiful, Character, Depth

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.69, Dell

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• As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and the bird accidentally turns into the wheel rather than away from it. A gentle crunch. The car passes. A shape like a discarded napkin left in the road. Still perfectly white, no red stains, but bearing no relation anymore to the shape of a bird. A trail of white feathers flutter down the road after the car. The suddeness is very upsetting. That gentle crunch.

  Antony Sher

  Beautiful, Kings, Sunday

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• How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.

  Woody Allen

  Zurich, Nephew, Specialists

  Without Feathers "Selections from the Allen Notebooks" (1975) See Emily Dickinson 10

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• Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the whumph of unseen wings. Here and there, feathers fell, and they were like tufts of white fire, disintegrating to ash as soon as they touched the ground.

  Laini Taylor

  Beautiful, Men, White

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