Wing Quotes
557 quotes by 453 authors
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening…
— Henry James
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My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.
— Osip Mandelstam
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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.
— Albert Einstein
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Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.
— Anne Rice
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...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon…
— Virginia Woolf
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...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles!…
— Victor Hugo
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The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The…
— Victor Hugo
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On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds.…
— Aldo Leopold
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Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way…
— Woody Allen
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the…
— William Blake
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She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that…
— Michael Ondaatje
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He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days…
— Chelsea Handler
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Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects…
— Tony Hillerman
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Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall…
— Lord Byron
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He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.
— Jan Karon
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No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]
— Christopher Paolini
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The iron heart that does not bleed The iron wing that does not break They exist, here and now
— Tsugumi Ohba
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..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a long…
— Charles Bukowski
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I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would…
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
Who Wrote These Wing Quotes
453 authors contributed a total of 557 Wing Quotes, led by these top contributors: