Feathers Quotes

351 quotes by 296 authors

You both passed out,â€ Percy said. â€œI donâ€™t know why, but Ella told me not to worry about it. She said you wereâ€¦sharing?â€ â€œSharing,â€ Ella… — Rick Riordan
I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that… — Nalini Singh
No matter that we could be beheaded for this,â€ said Esa. â€œHeads are overrated.â€ â€œYes, they are so unfashionable,â€ said Miri, imitating an Aslandian accent.… — Shannon Hale
Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast… — Virginia Woolf
Iâ€™ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, â€˜donâ€™t try to fly too high,â€™ or… — Stanley Kubrick
You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword… — Robert Jordan
Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air. — William Wharton
It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful." She leaned forward and touched his face lightly,… — Cassandra Clare
When Emily Dickinson writes, â€œHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,â€ she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation… — Terry Tempest Williams
I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years.… — Khaled Hosseini
The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself. — Arthur Rimbaud
Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers… — Edmund Spenser
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. — Emily Dickinson
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. — Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as… — Hans Christian Andersen
Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational… — Mark Twain
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I think a pillow should be the peace symbol, not the dove. The pillow has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have a… — Jack Handey
Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind — Shania Twain
In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while… — Alex Shoumatoff

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