Beaks Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“A bird with great feathers may have nothing else! Anyone who is deceived by dazzling feathers can find themselves in a pale world!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Birds, unlike us, lack countenance. But they make us smile when they connecting the sky with their dazzling feathers. They amaze us with how…

— Susan Ligori

“My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about…

— William Henry Hudson

“After so many years of foolishness, you have once again had an idea, have done something, have heard the bird in your chest singing…

— Herman Hesse

“But what Mayil liked the most was how birds behaved when they disagreed. If one bird was angry with another, it simply flew away.…

— Priyadarshini

“[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,”

— Ross Wetzsteon

“Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“I have found that a woman who wishes a man to hear what she says can best do so by first telling him his…

— Annelisa Christensen

“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

“There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other’s company in inferior and dying trees.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he…

— Flann O'Brien

“There are more chickens than a man can know in this world, but an unprovoked kindness is the rarest of birds.”

— Mark Twain