Feathers Quotes

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.

A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

I love funky shoes and hats. I'm into large-brimmed fedoras with big feathers in fun colors like purple and lime-yellow. I just think hats add pizzazz to your outfits.

What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow.

You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

Feathers predate birds.

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

I am the hawk and there's blood in my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.

England have players who can rattle anyone's feathers

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.

What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.

A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.

You can't make chicken salad out of chicken feathers

Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.

I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.

With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.

I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.

I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.

The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner as to obtain the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing.

I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.

Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]

Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.

The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

Man is a biped without feathers.

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.