Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurel Clark

There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.

Gustave Flaubert

Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.

John Lyly

None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.

John Malkovich

And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.

John Lydon

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

John Locke

If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Words are the wings of actions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

John Keats

Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.

Patrick Stewart

When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.

Quincy Jones

A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.

Prince Philip

If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

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.

Rachel Carson

Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.

Rabindranath Tagore

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

Russ Feingold

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

Rush Limbaugh

The last thing in the world someone should do is respond to critics. If I did that I'd be neutered by now--I would be in the nearest insane asylum wearing 15 straitjackets. My whole career has been nothing but: "You shouldn't do it that way, you bigot, you sexist, you homophobe, you pig, you right-wing warmonger, you whatever.

Stephen King

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

Lindsey Graham

Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

Linda McCartney

When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.

Karl Urban

When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

Karl Pilkington

Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot...

Robert Bringhurst

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

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.

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.