I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on,… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Memphis—it’s just a bird. Birds fly around, brother. It’s what they do. It’s not following you, and it’s not a sign. Unless… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to… — William Bartram Copy Share Image
During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes… — Bokar Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“Chihulys are the pigeons of Seattle. They’re everywhere, and even if they don’t get in your way, you can’t help but build… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“I met a boy and he told me a story. There was a lady long ago who spent her life coughing up… — Charlotte McConaghy Copy Share Image
He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't.… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind.… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Openly I whispered and breathed a big gulp of air and saw all the beautiful trees and birds which surrounded me. The… — Milton Hook Copy Share Image
It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And with that, Jonathan held in thought an image of the great gull-flocks on the shore of another time, and he knew… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my… — John Barth Copy Share Image
And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“We don't kill for no reason. As he spoke, the hummingbird pulsed between his palms like a heartbeat, whirred into the air… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“Until he found that bird, life would remain gray and bleak, illogical, without purpose; every seagull would remain a coincidental collection of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
U2 and folks like that. They all have that similar drive and that belief in themselves. They're early birds ... they're up… — Paul Oakenfold Copy Share Image
I reach out and grab her wrist. It feels impossibly tiny in my hand, like this one time I found a baby… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS… — William James Copy Share Image
I have seen many things in my life, many things in war and I have cried may times in my life. But… — Jules Ladoumegue Copy Share Image
The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“A lark, caught in a hunter’s net Sang sweeter then than ever, As if the falling melody Might wing and net dissever… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
And turkeys are a bird. A very nervous bird. You'd be nervous too if you knew that one day you'd get your… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“THE POOL Horned owl Stops his meditations, cleans his glasses, sighs. A firefly spins downhill & a star slides by. Old owl… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
“All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
A wise owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
