Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Robert A. Heinlein

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

Thomas Watson

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.

Steven Wright

So I got off the plane and I forget to take off my seat-belt and I’m dragging the plane through the terminal... The wings are knocking people over...

Thomas a Kempis

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

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.

Steven Weber

The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions.

Steven Weber

The right-wing just loves making a big entrance.

Julie Klausner

Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

Kathy Acker

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

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

Stephen Moyer

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television. That was cheap. That was selling out. I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

Tablo

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings.

Samantha Shannon

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

Rumi

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

Rumi

You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

Rumi

You cannot learn about Love, LOVE appears on the wings of grace.

Rumi

Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions.

Tom Robbins

A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.

Suzanne Collins

People don't need wings to survive" "Mockingjays do.

Soren Kierkegaard

People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.

Stephenie Meyer

I knew I was too late—and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.

Stephenie Meyer

I'll always be waiting in the wings Bella

Stephen Chow

I fell in love with Bruce Lee after I watched his movies, and I wanted to become a kung-fu practicer, and I would like to be someone like Bruce Lee. That's why I learned kung-fu, and that's why I picked the wing chun style, because it's his style. That's why I decided to be an actor, to go into show business, because of him.

Stephen Colbert

What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Thomas Brooks

In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.

Victor Hugo

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

Victor Hugo

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

Robert Bly

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

Robinson Jeffers

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.