Famous Quotes & Sayings

Totie Fields

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.

Rick Riordan

A weapon, I told Horus. I need a weapon. I reached into the Duat and pulled out an ostrich feather. “Really?” I yelled. Horus didn’t answer

Lupita Nyong'o

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

Arlo Guthrie

Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?

Lenny Bruce

Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.

John Gay

Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.

Jo Brand

We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens. I'm prepared to put up with that accusation, because at least my feet aren't killing me and I don't look like a bandy ostrich.

Albert Einstein

I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

Margaret Heffernan

We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.

Warren Buffett

If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.

Benjamin Franklin

Where carcasses are, eagles will gather, And where good laws are, much people flock thither

Niall Horan

I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.

Lou Reed

But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

Jon Runyan

A lot of people need a right tackle. And, by the looks of it, the Eagles are going to need one. I don't know what they're going to do. I haven't heard from them.

Walter Jones

It's a great feeling. It's great to be on the other side. The Philadelphia Eagles have been to the big games, and that's where we're trying to get to. This was another stepping stone to where we're trying to go.

Chinua Achebe

Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

C. S. Lewis

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

Chanakya

A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.

Ariel Sharon

I talked today to the secretary-general of the United Nations. I talked to every European leader about this issue,

Laurent Fabius

Italy is one of the pillars of Europe and one could be quite worried, ... So I think there is a need for a clarification at the level of the heads of government.

Andrew Douglas

It is going to change, quite dramatically, the way European markets work.

Jose Barroso

There is no Europe without freedom and solidarity,

Henrik Zetterberg

I think that's one thing that I didn't do (shoot often). In Europe I always looked to pass.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is likely that the European partners and also others will work towards a second decision, and I also think that is sensible,

Brian Tempest

It is just a modest acquisition. It is part of our overall European strategy.

Grant McCasland

Like most Europeans do, he shoots those 15-footers all the time. He stays after practice and keeps shooting it. Seemed all that practice after games paid off.

William J. Clinton

Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip of communism. We have aided their progress and I am proud of it.