Ostriches Quote by Jim Butcher Download Open image “We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.” — Jim Butcher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ostriches Sand Whole world World
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore. — Khalil Copy Share Image
“The back-and-forth ancient lull of the tide. The cry of seagulls passing overhead. The smell of salt and fish carried on the warm breeze.… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“We’re infants on a sandy beach, crawling on the edge of eternity’s ocean.” — R.P. Nettelhorst Copy Share Image
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I stared at MacFinn for a long moment. I believed that he was telling me the truth. That he didn’t have much control, if any, over his actions when he transformed. Though it occurred to me that if he wanted someone dead, he could probably point his monster-self in the right direction before he lost control. Note to self: Do… — Jim Butcher Copy Share
“So you really could die. Your godmother is right, you know. You are mad as a hatter. Nutty as a fruitcake.” “Crazy like a… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I knew I didn't have much of a chance of getting away from that swarm of fae piranha, but it was an infinitely larger… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I told you," Molly said, never looking toward me. "It's in the past. Leave it there." "You listening to my head, kiddo?" Her mouth… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Look,” I said. “Me and the island are . . . kind of partners.” “Oh, right,” Thomas said. He looked at Karrin and said, “Harry’s a geosexual.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I swear , this stupid town. Why does every hideous supernatural thing that happens happen here ? I'm gone for a few months and… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Well. We’ll just have to hope that this wasn’t a loup-garou, I guess.” “If it was a louper, you’d know,” Bob said wisely. “In… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I'm going to use them to track him down and thwart him." "Thwart?" Sarissa asked. "Thwart." I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Not everyone can be equally right, Harry.” “But believe you me, everyone can be equally wrong,” I said.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats? — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes — Dan Brown Copy Share
“I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up rivers to get at the hippos. Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great. I am… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
I will endanger your species like an ostrich, Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage! — Busta Rhymes Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if a full-grown ostrich has fewer feathers than your cowboy hat. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to pretend you haven't noticed, to become suddenly absorbed in something on the other side of the street, to leave the receiver off the telephone because it might be He who was ringing up, to leave… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than… — David Fricke Copy Share Image
