Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

According to Festus, our flying table, Buford, made it back safely while we were in Charleston, so those eagles didn't get him. Unfortunately, he lost the laundry bag with your pants." "Dang it!" Frank Barked, which Leo figured was probably severe profanity for him. No doubt Frank would've cursed some more -busting out the golly gees and the gosh darns- but Percy interrupted by doubling over and groaning. "Did the world just turn upside down?" he asked. Jason pressed his hands to his head. "Yeah, and it's spinning. Everything is yellow. Is it supposed to be yellow?

William Wordsworth

The Eagle, he was lord above

William J. Clinton

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

Warren Buffett

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

William Blake

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

William Cowper

Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.

Wes Anderson

I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.

Zakk Wylde

As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.

Jim Haslett

If I was the Cowboys, Eagles or Redskins, I'd be really mad at them for giving the Giants an extra home game,

Claude Chabrol

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

William Shakespeare

This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares...

May Sarton

Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.

Jim Clarke

When they think of pigeons they think of something wild.

Jessye Norman

Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.

William Shakespeare

Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.

Alan Alda

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Seth Shostak

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Phil Harrison

There are the born teachers who just want to do it. People will do it because they want to put something back into the community. Or they will have a passion for what they do and want other people to share that passion.

Drew Houston

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

Laura Schlessinger

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Valerie Harper

Golda was born in 1898. Her life parallels the life of the Jewish people in the 20th century. The text is beautiful. It gives enough history so that non-Jews can follow it.

Maajid Nawaz

I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.