Quotes about wing
wings our-words literature
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. George Eliot
wings gold wish
I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
wings evil want
I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system. James D. Watson
wings way lightning
Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn. James Gates Percival
wings wraith
Wraiths! Wraiths on wings! J. R. R. Tolkien
wings bird ems
Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot?
wings mind links
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.
wings armor tails
My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!
wings bird cages
You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings. Elton John
wings world body
I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results--or ill. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
wings causes abandoned
[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with. Georges Bataille
wings joy sorrow
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs. Jean Paul
wings america saws
I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw him, getting the heebie-jeebies whenever he spoke - after being sure from the start that he was a Gremlin on the wing of America - I really like the paintings of George W. Bush. Jerry Saltz
wings buffalo meals
The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings. Jim Gaffigan
wings years car
The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings. Jackie Stewart
wings religion-and-politics right-wing
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. Christopher Lasch
wings understanding may
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing Christopher Fry
wings fear-of-the-unknown horns
From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown. Chris Murphy
wings you-make-me-feel feels
You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me. Francesca Lia Block
wings fire people
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. George Orwell
wings fans shoulders
Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings. Jeanette Winterson
wings
We have to earn our Wings every day. Frank Borman
wings careers luck
You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble. George Thorogood
wings two enemy
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
wings walks
Would a fly without wings be called a walk? George Carlin
wings issues together
The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy.
wings fiber carbon
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. Felix Baumgartner
wings bird heaven
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. Francis Beaumont
wings white dumb
Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come. Francis Bacon
wings fire feelings
I want more of this feeling - fire and wings. Jean Rhys
wings two feet
There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic. Harriet Beecher Stowe
wings bumblebees weight
According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway. Igor Sikorsky
wings political polite
Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite Iain Banks