Bird Quote by William Maxwell

“If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog,…” quote by William Maxwell — Download Open image

“If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Bird Dog Hunting Hunting dog Ifs Imagination Motivational Mouths Return Turns

More by William Maxwell

“There is nothing so difficult to arrive at as the nature and personality of one's parents. Death, about which so much mystery is made,is…

William Maxwell

Image

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.

William Maxwell

Image

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side…

William Maxwell

Image

I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to…

William Maxwell

Image

“Whether they are part of a home or home is a part of them is not a question children are prepared to answer. Having…

William Maxwell

Image

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

William Maxwell

Image

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

William Maxwell

Image

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

William Maxwell

Image

“If your first plan fails, try another!” – Napoleon Hill If”

William Maxwell

Image

The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice,

William Maxwell

Image

If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life…

William Maxwell

Image

“Without the heavy set aristocratic man snoring away on his side of the bed, without the fresh-eyed child whose hair ribbon needs retying; without…

William Maxwell

Image

Explore all 46 William Maxwell quotes

More Bird quotes

And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start…

Red Auerbach

Image

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

Washington Irving

Image

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

Rabindranath Tagore

Image

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

e. e. cummings

Image

Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and…

Guy Murchie

Image

Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

Galileo Galilei

Image

And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great…

Frances Sargent Osgood

Image

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,…

Patrick MacGill

Image

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

Joseph Addison

Image

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

Thomas Hardy

Image

When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,…

Maile Meloy

Image

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,…

Colleen McCullough

Image

Browse all 3,357 Bird quotes

Bird Quote by William Maxwell

Related quotes

More by William Maxwell

More Bird quotes