Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Sloane Coffin

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

William Butler Yeats

There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

William Butler Yeats

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

Winona Ryder

My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.

Woody Guthrie

Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing.

Woody Guthrie

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

W. C. Fields

If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons.

William Hague

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

William Devane

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Warren Beatty

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

William Blake

A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

William Blake

Knowledge is Life with wings

Kevin Hart

I'm a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, a cheesesteak guy. But I'll only get a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. No one else does it right.

Scott McNealy

Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off.

Les Brown

Leap and grow your wings on the way down

Tess Gerritsen

Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.

Terry Pratchett

Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings.

Terry Pratchett

I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.

Ted Lindsay

At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

Randeep Hooda

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

Shirley Bassey

I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.

Thomas a Kempis

Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.

Robert Jordan

If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.

Robert Jordan

If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.

Robert Jordan

A secret spoken finds wings.

Robert Southey

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

Tom Metzger

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

Tim LaHaye

[The Freedom Writer] is full of disinformation ... typical of left-wing journals like yours, you print anything you can find that is derogatory to those with whom you disagree - without checking the facts.

Rumi

But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.

Sidney Blumenthal

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

Tom Reilly

Look to the horizon, spread your wings, and fly.

Tom Petty

I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.

Simone de Beauvoir

Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.