Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edna St. Vincent Millay

To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

Edgar Lee Masters

The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!

Augustus Hare

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

Arlen Specter

If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.

Aldo Leopold

Whoever invented the word 'grace' must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.

Albert Einstein

The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.

Andrea Dworkin

The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.

Andrea Jung

Some people just wait for someone to take them under their wings but they should just find someones wings to grab onto.

Andrea Gibson

she's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing

Aeschylus

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

Adam Pally

There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

Sven's got a roving eye. He's like a seagull and can wrap his wings around people.

Alicia Keys

I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

Anne Lamott

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

Anna Akhmatova

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

Amanda Hocking

I only saw fire and chandeliers and smoke. No people. Not the room. Not even a time frame. Do you know how many chandeliers there are in the south wing alone? What was I supposed to do? Tell everyone to avoid chandeliers forever?

Annie Dillard

Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and a wing.

Annie Dillard

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Alexander Pope

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

Alexander Pope

No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

Alexander Pope

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

Alexander Pope

And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

Dylan Thomas

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

Douglas Adams

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

Duke Ellington

Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.

Dolly Parton

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

Anatoli Boukreev

Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.

Anais Nin

I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

Ann Aguirre

Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don’t take anything away. A relationship shouldn’t impose limits—and if it does, then it’s wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.