Wings Quotes - Page 10

• I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.

  Ted Lindsay

  Heart, Chicago, Red

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• Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

  Chinua Achebe

  Eagles, Kites, Break

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.14, Heinemann

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• The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is not, strictly speaking, manufactured in the brain; it is received by the brain, like any 'real' sense datum, and the patient act in response to this to-him-very-real perception of reality in as logical a way as we do to our sense data. In any way to suppose he only 'thinks he sees it' is to misunderstand totally the experience of psychosis.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wall, Real, Thinking

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.

  Jackie Stewart

  Years, Car, Tyres

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• We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.

  Abdul Kalam

  Fire, Giving, Effort

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.16, Universities Press

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• Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

  William Butler Yeats

  Blood, Bravery, Gone

  "September, 1913" l. 7 (1914)

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• When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

  James Earl Jones

  Inspirational, Dance, New York

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• The candle flame is too hot. It flickers and dances in the over-warm breeze, a breeze that brings no respite from the heat. Soft gossamer wings flutter to and fro in the dark, sprinkling dusty scaled in the circle of light. I'm struggling to resist, but I'm drawn. And then it's to bright, and I am flying too close to the sun, dazzled by the light, fried and melting from the heat, weary in my endeavers to stay airborn. I am so warm. The heat... It's stiffling, overpowering. It wakes me.

  E. L. James

  Struggle, Dark, Light

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• Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired.

  Hal Crowther

  Art, Successful, Order

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• Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

  Jo-Ann Mapson

  Daughter, Mother, Turns

  Jo-Ann Mapson (2010). “Solomon's Oak”, p.262, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.

  Hafez

  Love, Marriage, Sky

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• Have you watched the fairies when the rain is done, Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun?

  Rose Fyleman

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Rose Fyleman, “Have You Watched The Fairies?”

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• And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Air, Walks

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.853, Delphi Classics

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• I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.

  Martin Sheen

  Reality, West, Fantasy

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• When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get loose, and it wasn't leaving much room for me to breathe.

  Glenda Millard

  Doors, Bird, Leaving

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• The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

  Plato

  Race, Flying, Body

  Plato (1953). “Plato: With an English Translation”

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• Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

  Kathy Acker

  Right Wing, Left Wing, Left

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• Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand with, in many instances, customers from rich countries circumventing their national laws to exploit children in other countries. Sex tourism has spread its illicit wings wide, and paedophiles search for their victims in all parts of the globe. The problem is compounded by the criminal networks which benefit from the trade in children, and by collusion and corruption in many national settings.

  Vitit Muntarbhorn

  Country, Sex, Children

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• Since I have spread my wings to purpose high,
  The more beneath my feet the clouds I see,
  The more I give the winds my pinions free,
  Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.

  Giordano Bruno

  Clouds, Wind, Sky

  "Giordano Bruno: Philosopher and Martyr". Book by Thomas Davidson, 1890.

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• Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.

  Plato

  Inspiration, Sadness, Order

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• 'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Said

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.261, Penguin

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• Stupid cupid you're a real mean guy, I'd like to pick your wings so you can't fly, I am in love and it's a crying shame, and I know that you're the one to blame, hey, hey set me free, stupid cupid, stop picking on me.

  Mandy Moore

  Stupid, Real, Fall

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• In this world you've a soul for a compass
  And a heart for a pair of wings
  There's a star on the far horizon
  Rising bright in an azure sky
  For the rest of the time that you're given
  Why walk when you can fly?

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Inspirational, Life, Stars

  Song: Why Walk When You Can Fly?, 1994

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• Glory be to God for dappled things-
  For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
  For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
  Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
  Landscape plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plough;
  And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
  
  All things counter, original, spare, strange;
  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
  With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
  He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
  Praise him.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Life, Sweet, Couple

  "Pied Beauty" l. 7 (written 1877)

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• Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently.

  Beryl Markham

  Character, Yield, Hands

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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