Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Marlowe

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

Dale Carnegie

If you have worries, there is no better way to eliminate them than by walking them off. Just take them out for a walk. They may take wings and fly away!

Daniel Bernoulli

All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.

Countee Cullen

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

Douglas Coupland

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

Anne Sexton

Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings

Anne Sexton

I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.

Anthony Holden

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

Anna Quindlen

Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.

Eddie Redmayne

Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings.

Dennis Prager

The right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk

Dennis Prager

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

Dennis Prager

Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.

Dennis Prager

Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one

Dennis Prager

Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years

Bobby Seale

Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.

Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.

Abdul Kalam

We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.

Dante Alighieri

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

Danielle Steel

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

Dan Millman

Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?

Cornel West

The black church is dormant, much of the community is dormant. If the black church is leaning toward the right, much of the community is leaning toward the right. If it is leaning in the left wing direction having repercussions.

Cornel West

The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives.

Coventry Patmore

The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.

Mindy Kaling

I have the right to life, liberty and chicken wings.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

Isla Fisher

All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore.

Ishmael Reed

I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read on the editorial pages, or handouts from right wing institutions like the American Enterprise Institute.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

J. K. Rowling

Look, why don't you go talk to Ron about all this?" Harry asked. "Well, I would, but he's always asleep when I go and see him!" said Lavender fretfully. "Is he?" said Harry, surprised, for he had found Ron perfectly alert every time he had been up to the hospital wing.

Ivan Pavlov

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.

Juan Williams

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.