Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon B. Hinckley

In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, "You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it.

Jean Rhys

I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.

Jerry Saltz

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.

Jim Gaffigan

The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings.

Jackie Stewart

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.

Christopher Lasch

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.

Jeanette Winterson

Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings.

Georges Bataille

[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.

Jean Paul

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Jay Asher

Normally when a person has a stellar image another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw to expose itself.

Eugene Field

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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.

Igor Sikorsky

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.

Iain Banks

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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.

Gena Showalter

I am made of awesome." Kaia the Wing Shredder

Franz Kafka

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Erica Jong

Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.

Frank Borman

We have to earn our Wings every day.

George Thorogood

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 Orwell

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

George Carlin

Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

George Carlin

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.

Felix Baumgartner

I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

Francis Beaumont

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 Bacon

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.

Erin Hunter

After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing.

Flavor Flav

I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to... I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

Henning Mankell

We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.

Helen Keller

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

Cassandra Clare

I forgot," Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. "Faeries have no sense of humor." "Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie nightclub downtown called Hot Wings. Not," he added, "that I have ever been there.

George Eliot

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Janeane Garofalo

My hell is going to be the stairmaster wing of Dante's inferno, where they're gonna tape my feet to the pedals and the only music I get is Michael Bolton karaoke style.