Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elaine Paige

I did miss the music a bit - but only in the wings, when I was waiting to go on. It seemed dreadfully quiet, rather unnerving. But the wonderful thing was that one didn't have to be quite so obsessive about one's health, and one's voice.

Robinson Jeffers

Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.

Victor Hugo

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

Victor Hugo

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

Robert Bly

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

Tim LaHaye

[The Freedom Writer] is full of disinformation ... typical of left-wing journals like yours, you print anything you can find that is derogatory to those with whom you disagree - without checking the facts.

Rumi

But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.

Robert Jordan

If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.

Robert Jordan

If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.

Robert Jordan

A secret spoken finds wings.

Robert Southey

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

Suzanne Collins

People don't need wings to survive" "Mockingjays do.

Stephen King

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

Ted Lindsay

At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

James Patterson

Ari felt like, Hellooo, I have wings! I turn into a wolf! Blending is out is out of the question!

James Patterson

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

James Patterson

Yeah sure,why not?"i said,making a mental note to get a good look at his wings. For all I knew, they were remote-controlled and duct taped to his back.” -max

James Patterson

why can't you just get out of here and leave me alone?"i bellowed. "i can't!" dylan shouted back,his face twisted with an anger i'd never seen from him. "you can,"i said through gritted teeth."just point your wings that way and flap!

James Patterson

Max—you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings steady, coasting for a long, long way on a warm updraft. It was like floating on a cloud, the best feeling you can imagine. I wish you could try it with me. Maybe next time. You know, Voice, I thought finally, my friends are my world.

Soren Kierkegaard

People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.

Stephenie Meyer

I knew I was too late—and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.

Stephenie Meyer

I'll always be waiting in the wings Bella

Stephen Chow

I fell in love with Bruce Lee after I watched his movies, and I wanted to become a kung-fu practicer, and I would like to be someone like Bruce Lee. That's why I learned kung-fu, and that's why I picked the wing chun style, because it's his style. That's why I decided to be an actor, to go into show business, because of him.

Stephen Colbert

What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Thomas Brooks

In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.

Ron Atkinson

Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half.

Roger Martin

I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.

Rick Warren

People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground.

Veronica Roth

If the Dauntless knew about this, everyone would be getting in line to learn how to drive it,” he says. “Including me.” “No, they would be strapping themselves to the wings.” Christina pokes his arm. “Don’t you know your own faction?

Kathy Acker

Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

Saint Francis de Sales

Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

Saint Augustine

You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.