Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. C. Fields

If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons.

Sara Sheridan

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

Sandra Bernhard

Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.

Samuel Rutherford

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

Samuel Rutherford

The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.

Wallace Stevens

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

Warren Beatty

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

William Blake

A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

William Blake

Knowledge is Life with wings

William H. Gass

I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.

William Sloane Coffin

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

William Butler Yeats

There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

William Butler Yeats

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

Winona Ryder

My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.

Woody Guthrie

Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing.

Woody Guthrie

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

William Cowper

In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.

William Cowper

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

Twiggy

Fluted sleeves or any sleeve that flares out before coming in again at the wrist are very feminine and a great way to distract from the dreaded 'bingo wings.'

Sarah Dessen

Why does she have wings?' So she can fly.

Rod Stewart

Spread your wings and let me come inside.

Rod Serling

Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand in the wings and watch other people take the curtain calls while his own contributions get lost in the shuffle.

Robert Smith

If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.

William Hague

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

William Devane

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Vladimir Nabokov

in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

William P. Young

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

Tablo

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings.

Samantha Shannon

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

Rumi

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

Rumi

You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

Rumi

You cannot learn about Love, LOVE appears on the wings of grace.

Rumi

Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions.