Wings Quotes

1815 quotes by 1208 authors

There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall… — William Carlos Williams
But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. [ ] but his stanza is not completely empty [ *… — Mark Z. Danielewski
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. — Douglas Adams
Her glass wings are gone. — Margaret Atwood
Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals. — Stephen King
Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings. — Unknown Author
You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers. — James Patterson
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. — Kurt Vonnegut
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? — Unknown Author
My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing. — Osip Mandelstam
The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is… — Annie Dillard
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the… — Kate Chopin
You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or… — Douglas Coupland
Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least… — Edith Wharton
And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is… — Samuel R. Delany
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. — Albert Einstein
Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They… — Neil Gaiman

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