Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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

— 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

“While tearing apart a bird with fat fingers,”

— George R.R. Martin

“and birds in the hand such an irritating way of pecking your fingers, shitting in your palm, and then flying away.”

— Stephen King

“A bird in the hand loses its mystery in no time flat.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“A bird in the hand is worth plucking, frying, and sticking between two bits of bread.”

— Edward Burns

“It was as if the birds were caught in the repetition of some primal trauma, stuck between what they had and what they wanted.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“The thirstiest bird is surely the swallow.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“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

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

— Anonymous

“Come, fill the Cup, in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To…

— Omar Khayyam