Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

James D. Watson

I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.

James Gates Percival

Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

Howard Bloom

Most right-wing person I know!

Howard Dean

The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.

Ice Cube

What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

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.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Wraiths! Wraiths on wings!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot?

J. R. R. Tolkien

They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.

J. R. R. Tolkien

My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!

Elton John

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results--or ill.

Horace

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty. [Lat., Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit Pennas, resigno quae dedit, et mea Virtute me involvo, probamque Pauperiem sine dote quaero.]

Horace

Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

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.

George Herbert

It is better to have wings then hornes.

Gene Fowler

News is history shot on the wing.

Niall Horan

Red Bull doesn't give you wings, it just makes ya sick.

Mike Oldfield

I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.

Mindy Kaling

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

Pat Robertson

There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.

Ozzy Osbourne

You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying 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.

Juan Williams

For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States legally.

Joseph Joubert

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]

Milos Zeman

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

Mike Shinoda

I'm going to sprout wings out of my ass one day and fly around the world.

Nancy Mitford

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Kathy Bates

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.