Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annie Dillard

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Alexander Pope

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

Alexander Pope

No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

Alexander Pope

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

Alexander Pope

And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

Dylan Thomas

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

Douglas Adams

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

Dale Carnegie

If you have worries, there is no better way to eliminate them than by walking them off. Just take them out for a walk. They may take wings and fly away!

Daniel Bernoulli

All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.

Countee Cullen

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

Douglas Coupland

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

Dolly Parton

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

Anna Quindlen

Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.

Anatoli Boukreev

Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.

Anais Nin

I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

Ann Aguirre

Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don’t take anything away. A relationship shouldn’t impose limits—and if it does, then it’s wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.

Christopher Marlowe

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

Anne Sexton

Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings

Anne Sexton

I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.

Anthony Holden

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

Alicia Keys

I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

Andrea Jung

Some people just wait for someone to take them under their wings but they should just find someones wings to grab onto.

Andrea Gibson

she's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing

Aeschylus

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

Bobby Seale

Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.

Bob Dylan

If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly?

Bruce Coville

If you don’t jump, the wings never come.

Boo Weekley

I have mostly been eating chicken wings. I only stick to things I can spell.

Barbara Amiel

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

Antonio Porchia

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

Anzia Yezierska

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

Edmund Spenser

Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought

Bob Mould

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.