Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“grip of Paradox. A predatory bird with a great sharp beak and vicious talons—Paradox. To be in its grip is to suffer, yet so…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“This strange thing must have crept Right out of hell. It resembles a bird’s foot Worn around the cannibal’s neck. As you hold it…

— Charles Simic

“likeness of a bird of prey. She’s terrible and wonderful to look at, with soft, bronze wings that grow from the bottom of her…

— Zoraida Córdova

“While tearing apart a bird with fat fingers,”

— George R.R. Martin

“Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“When I saw them in Africa, I thought these birds were the greatest fliers of all. Hardly beating their wings, they fly for hours,…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“There can be no question that parrots have more intellect than any other kind of bird, and it is this that makes them such…

— E.H. Aitken

“The thirstiest bird is surely the swallow.”

— Jarod Kintz

If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings

— Anonymous

“is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame,”

— Veronica Rossi

“I will fly away to them, to the royal birds, and they will beat me, because I, that am so ugly, dare to come…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Every bird of prey looks over its shoulder before it goes in for the kill, even a hawk. Even they know to watch their…

— Michelle Horst