Feather Quotes - page 3

Listen! what is life? It is a feather, it is the seed of the grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes multiplying itself and dying in the act, sometimes carried away into the heavens. But if that seed be good and heavy it may perchance travel a little way on the road it wills. It is well to try and journey one's road and to fight with the air. Man must die. At the worst he can but die a little sooner... Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere. Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the Hand with which we hold off Death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset. (H. Rider Haggard)
The whole business is a gamble. There's no real stability, you're kind of just floating around like a feather your whole life. View quote
Taryn Manning
Birds of a feather will gather together. View quote
Robert Burton
I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather. View quote
Chelsea Handler
The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster. View quote
Dean Koontz
It took the whole of Creation to produce my foot, my each feather: now I hold Creation in my foot. View quote
Ted Hughes
Cause I don't wanna go on with you like that, Don't wanna be a feather in your cap. I just wanna tell you honey I ain't mad, But I don't wanna go on with you like that. View quote
Elton John
The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while Foster the People plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work. View quote
Maggie Stiefvater
Here's to the day when it is May And care as light as a feather, When your little shoes and my big boots Go tramping over the heather. View quote
Bliss Carman
It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap. View quote
Agatha Christie
You know that in all tombs there is always a false door?" Renisenb stared. "Yes, of course." "Well, people are like that too. They create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority - and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and everybody thinks, that they are like that. But behind that door, Renisenb, is a bare rock ... And so when reality comes and touches them with the feather of truth - their true self reasserts itself. (Agatha Christie)
You've seen the refugees heading nowhere, you've heard the executioners sing joyfully. You should praise the mutilated world. Remember the moments when we were together in a white room and the curtain fluttered. Return in thought to the concert where music flared. You gathered acorns in the park in autumn and leaves eddied over the earth's scars. Praise the mutilated world and the gray feather a thrush lost, and the gentle light that strays and vanishes and returns. View quote
Adam Zagajewski
The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery. View quote
Will Cuppy
No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather! View quote
George MacDonald
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. View quote
Charles Lamb
A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. View quote
Charles Lamb
Such hopes now seemed ludicrous in their naivety, like trying to stop a bulldozer with a feather. View quote
Alastair Reynolds
Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him. View quote
Stephen King
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. View quote
Virginia Woolf
I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain. View quote
Jim Morrison
I wear your kiss like a feather Laid upon my cheek. (Stephen Spender)
Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. View quote
Terry Pratchett
A willing heart adds feather to the heel. View quote
Joanna Baillie
A willing heart adds feather to the heel, And makes the clown a winged Mercury. View quote
Joanna Baillie
To waft a feather or to drown a fly. View quote
Edward Young