Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander McQueen

Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.

E. O. Wilson

We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.

Douglas Coupland

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

David Mamet

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

David Letterman

Tim Tebow may be back in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles. As you remember, he was thrown out of the league when he landed his gyrocopter on the White House lawn.

Bruce Dickinson

Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.

Brian Tracy

If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

Chip Kelly

I'm not going to mortgage the Eagles' future for Marcus Mariota.

Chinua Achebe

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

Chanakya

A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.

Andrew Shue

When I was in high school... I had to measure up to my older brother, who is an Eagle Scout. And that's not a good thing.

Charlie Sheen

You can't criticize Bob Dylan's singing. You have to respect Billy Joel as a brilliant poet. You can't tell me there's a better rock band ever than Led Zeppelin. And if you speak during the Eagles' "Last Resort," we're done. I'm just asking for seven minutes. This stuff really matters, you know.

William Shakespeare

The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

William Shakespeare

All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind Bated like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats like images; As full of spirit as the month of May And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.

Bill Moyers

I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it's no longer an eagle and it's going to crash.

C. S. Lewis

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

Where the carcase is, there shall the eagles be gathered together.

That?s Eagle Point?s highest finish ever at that tournament.

In my dream, the eagle was showing me how life for Native Americans used to be and some things that Native people should do to be healthy once again.

Don Henley

I'm sure The Eagles will go into the studio eventually, probably in the fall after we get back and get rested from the European tour.

No need to teach an eagle to fly

I want to get that done. I'm going to push for it with the Eagles over the next few days.

Don Henley

I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of.

Don Henley

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

Don Henley

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

Glenn Frey

Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.

Jim Haslett

If I was the Cowboys, Eagles or Redskins, I'd be really mad at them for giving the Giants an extra home game,

Tiger Woods

I had to play a great shot out of the trees and give myself a putt, which I didn't do, ... I tried to hole the chip, and I didn't do that. I had to at least try to make a putt so I could eagle the last hole, and I didn't do that, either.

Carlos Santana

His main voice, when he's like an eagle taking off, is the piano.

Jean Rhys

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old.

John Webster

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

Meredith Brooks

The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.

Michael Moore

I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.