“You were born with wings, why prefer to crwal through life?” — Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi Copy Share Image
Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art. — Samuel West Copy Share Image
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly. — Annabel Pitcher Copy Share Image
The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Butterflies cant see their wings. They cant see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that aswell — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings--… — Henry Austin Dobson Copy Share Image
[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
What is it?" she asked. "I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" "I'm afraid not," she replied,… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &… — Plato Copy Share Image
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“The Flowers All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
“You are not a lost cause. You are a hawk who has had her wings clipped for so long that she had… — Kristi Strong Copy Share Image
Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye,… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image