Wings Quotes - Page 30

• One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then certainly it is very regular with the colors and so on, but nobody thought one could get the basis of biology from the coloring of the wing of a butterfly.

  Niels Bohr

  Butterfly, Science, Color

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• Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.

  Kjell Bloch Sandved

  Butterfly, Messages, Written

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• I shot Barton Fink in July and moved out to LA that fall. The movie came out in the spring and it was a year before I got Wings.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Spring, Fall, July

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• We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.

  Andrea Corr

  Queens, Things In Life, Ants

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• An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibility to hold it in. His over-powering impulse is to gyrate before his fellow men, flapping his wings and emitting defiant yells. This being forbidden by the police of all civilized nations, he takes it out by putting his yells on paper. Such is the thing called self-expression.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Artist, Self

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.466, Vintage

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• Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love.

  Jeffrey Osborne

  Music, Flying High, Two

  Song: On The Wings Of Love

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• Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.

  Alan Shearer

  Football, Heads Up, Picks

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• I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

  Deborah Norville

  Jobs, Kids, Thinking

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• It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly's wing? Not if you are a McDonalds's man.

  Ray Kroc

  Butterfly, Men, Mcdonalds

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• On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

  Claude Debussy

  Teaching, Butterfly, Assessment

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• We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

  Phil Knight

  Sports, Nike, Knights

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• If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real, physical terms - than your neighbor who is forty-four, works in a dead-end job, eats chicken wings twice a day, considers thinking too strenuous, and looks at lifting a beer glass as a reasonable daily workout.

  Ken Robinson

  Fitness, Workout, Jobs

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• The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being, evening's crystallization and wings that open to the light.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Two, Light

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• A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

  Khalil Gibran

  Poetry, Bird, Excellence

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• If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

  Frederick Douglass

  Eagles, Civilization, Immigration

  "Our Composite Nationality". Frederick Douglass' Address in Boston, Massachusetts, teachingamericanhistory.org. December 7, 1869.

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• Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Air, Next, Machines

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• ...their callous indifference to the plight of children streaming across the border, fleeing horrific circumstances in their own country. Republicans are simply strangled by extremism. There is no more establishment, or middle or moderate wing. You've got the Steve King wing of the Republican Party today, who raised the specter of impeachment this weekend.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Country, Kings, Children

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• Like a bird with broken wing
  that has traveled through wind for years . . .
  I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .

  Giorgos Seferis

  Inspirational, Heart, Sleep

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• I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings

  Nas

  Giving, Imagination, Inspire

  Song: Thugz Mansion

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• The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.

  Julian Grenfell

  Strong, War, Night

  Julian Grenfell, “Into Battle”

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• All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Angel, People, Utopia

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• Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Swans, White, Bird

  Robinson Jeffers, “Shiva”

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• While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a bird, that sails are to a ship. Nothing is hard if done for love's sweet sake. The yoke of love is easy; the yoke of duty is hard. There is all the difference in the world between being drawn by love and being driven by duty. The task may be the same, but love makes everything light, and duty makes everything drudgery.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Love, Sweet, Light

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• Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.

  Thomas Gray

  Kings, Air, Confusion

  'The Bard' (1757) l. 1

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• If you haven't got eyes, you shouldn't have wings

  Karl Pilkington

  Eye, Havens, Ifs

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