Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that–where merely hundreds of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
“Squawking pierced the funeral's hushed atmosphere as hundreds of black birds flew overhead in a rush of beating wings. They settled on… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear.… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“one day went upon the platform and was ready to deliver a sermon when he heard a swallow singing. "Listen," said he,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds… — John Donne Copy Share Image
One thing that influenced me in the States when I was doing this recording was American people feeding me things like Arnold… — Roy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Lots of people ask me, 'What do you do?' Apparently, being a columnist, TV bird, all-round good egg, mother of three, and… — Katie Hopkins Copy Share Image
“In mirth he mocks the other birds at noon, Catching the lilt of every easy tune; But when the day departs he… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds'… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
One of the most humbling gigs I've ever had was I was paid by a neighbor to go get a dead bird… — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened.… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Things that influence me are my kids, their happiness, colorfulness, and vitality. My husband - he comes up with some great quotes… — Mary Engelbreit Copy Share Image
Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
“A bird hopped onto the foaming lilac outside. Its throat quivered; notes rose and fell out. As long as it kept singing… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image