Wings Quotes - Page 25

• I've been having problems with the right wing lately.

  John F. Kerry

  Problem, Right Wing

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• Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Sweet, Night, Feet

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• I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is

  Pat Metheny

  Thinking, Views, Jazz

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• Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Credit, Paper

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.234

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• Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

  John Dryden

  Winter, Land, Fowl

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...”, p.400

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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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• All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

  William James

  Health, Love Is, Riches

  William James (1911). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902”

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• On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.

  Lynn Johnston

  Dream, Morning, Lying

  Lynn Johnston (1994). “It's the Thought That Counts:: A For Better Or For Worse Fifteenth Anniversary Collection”, p.6, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

  Gertrude Atherton

  Mistake, People, Imagination

  Gertrude Atherton (2012). “The Bell in the Fog: And Other Stories”, p.21, The Floating Press

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• You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?

  T.A. Barron

  Stars, Butterfly, Soul

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• If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

  Prince Philip

  Swim, Submarines, Legs

  "Wince Philip: Prince's Most Famous Comments and Clangers". www.theguardian.com. May 04, 2017.

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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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• I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.

  Charles Baudelaire

  War, Wind, Hysteria

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• To be, contents his natural desire,
  He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire;
  But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
  His faithful dog shall bear him company.
  Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense
  Weigh thy opinion against Providence.

  Alexander Pope

  Dog, Angel, Thinking

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.33

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• Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.

  Robert Hunter

  Spring, Night, Sun

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• Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost between the wonder and the why?

  Nick Gordon

  Sweet, Nature, Travel

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• On things like censorship, I think everything should be allowed on television. You know, I mean anything. I don’t know who believes that anymore. Every left wing party says there should be some degree of censorship, that some things are bad taste. But it’s unjustifiable for anyone to decide what is bad taste.

  Richey Edwards

  Party, Believe, Mean

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• The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Sea, Bird

  Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset, William Butler Yeats (1971). “Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset [and] William Butler Yeats”

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• Feathers! spluttered Sargatanas. Feathers are for the birds, my boy. Flaking, peeling, scale-ridden wings, now that's what real beings wear. I'll tell you a secret. He said, and drew me closer. The eternal pain at having known Paradise and lost it is priceless. I wouldn't swap it for anything.

  George Pendle

  Pain, Real, Boys

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• We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.

  Henning Mankell

  Bird, Shooting, Mouths

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• Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes, crimson breasts that beat against bars, wings that flapped against their neighbours, blood red, royal blue, gypsy yellow, grass green. The birds were crammed along perches. Macaws hung upside down here and there, batting their white eyes, and small green parrots flittered above our heads in drifts. A hot of cockatoos looked down from on high over the shrill madness, high crested, creamy breasted. The screeching was like laughter in hell.

  Carol Birch

  Laughter, Eye, Yellow

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• Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in her breast climbed to her throat and gathered songless, hovering, all tumult, wing to wing, so ardent for those climes where all things end.

  Mervyn Peake

  Rose, Bird, Dew

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.362, The Overlook Press

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• Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stars, Flower, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.207, Delphi Classics

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• He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything - his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.

  Jack Youngblood

  Play, Technique, Rams

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• It hurts when it don't last, no easy way saying bye. So I'mma spread my wings and head for the sky.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Hurt, Sky, Mma

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