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I am a feather for each wind that blows — William Shakespeare

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster. — John O'Neill

Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air. — William Wharton

The basic and essential human is the woman. — Orson Welles

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership. — Robert M. Gates

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? — Jean Paul

I've found rumors have much in common with feathers. It's rare that either holds much weight. — Morgan Rhodes

In six thousand years, you could never grow wings on a reptile. With sixty million, however, you could have feathers, too. — John McPhee

And if that only inflames your curiosity, I say to you, a writer without curiosity is a bird without feathers. — Jeff Salyards

Thing is, I am not a big fan of hovers. I firmly believe that if man was meant to fly we'd have feathers, rubber bones, or better insurance coverage. — John Zakour

The flakes are the size of tiny feathers, and that's the way snow is, it's not necessarily cold. — Peter Hoeg

Words of others, helps weave our feathers. — Bmmite

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today. — John Barrymore

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate! — William James

Because they weren't wings. They were bones and feathers and magic - and will. — Rainbow Rowell

Don't judge a bird by its feathers;
judge it by how high it can fly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around. — Bradley Cooper

The wolf howled under the leaves
And spit out the prettiest feathers
Of his meal of fowl:
Like him I consume myself. — Arthur Rimbaud

These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating — Vine Deloria Jr.

Why am I covered in feathers?" I asked, confused.
He exhaled impatiently. "I bit a pillow. Or two ... — Stephenie Meyer

We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place. — Neil Shubin

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall. — Janette Rallison

After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was. — Wes Bentley

Gabriel.
This has to be his fault, somehow. I'm going to track him down, pluck out his angel feathers, and stuff a pillow with them. — Lisa Desrochers

I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers. — Anne Heche

Being the best right now doesn't do anything for my feathers. — Shaquille O'Neal

I cut out construction paper feathers and taped them on my arms so I can fly! Pretty neat, huh? — Bill Watterson

It felt terrific. It felt deeper and richer than laughter. It felt like opening a door and tumbling headfirst into a pile of feathers. — Leslea Tash

Words and feathers the wind carries away. — George Herbert

Feathers. Bloody hell, he hadn't seen that one coming when he'd considered his future. Like a goddamn chicken. — Karen Marie Moning

I think it's very good music composed by a human composer and sung by two birds with two feet and no feathers! — Alexandre Dumas

My problems are as light as a feather because god carries them for me — Skylar Laine

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. — Aesop

If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies. — Jessica Raine

A flock isn't such a bad thing if you belong, but a few hundred starlings will tear an unlucky martin to feathers if it crosses their path. — Joe Hill

Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers. — Margaret Atwood

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.' — Pauline Kael

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. — Paul Eldridge

She wears her grief like a coat of feathers too heavy for flight. — Libba Bray

Love is love, wherever you may find it - even when it's covered in feathers. — Alan Bradley

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts. — John Zakour

When the time comes, for you to own the wings forever. Never hesitate to fight and stay on the ground, with the fear of losing few feathers. — Akshay Vasu

Never ruffle the feathers of a spiteful woman because she will not only want to hurt you, but she will want to draw your blood. Yikes, — Mia Asher

Even the songbirds have levels of mercury in their blood and feathers. — Henri Cole

[Samantha Dunn] wrote that when God wants your attention, first He throws feathers. After that, He starts throwing bricks. — Claire Fontaine

I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes. — Yves Rossy

I testify
to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven
and walls of colour,
the colonnades of jasper. — Hilda Doolittle

Birds of the same feathers flock together, and when they flock together they fly so high. — Cecil Thounaojam

Asking a peacock to pull out his feathers was a hard thing to do. — Tarryn Fisher

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back. — Ellen Swallow Richards

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds. — Isaac Bickerstaffe

Tie me with love, clip all of my feathers, and take me anywhere. — Debasish Mridha

They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst. — Erin Morgenstern

Sticking feathers up your butt,Tyler says,does not make you a chicken — Chuck Palahniuk

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers? — Joseph Wood Krutch

Eros aimed one of his arrows at Medea, and drove it into her heart, up to the feathers. — Robert Graves

Feathers covered the carnage, as if a rebel angel had gone mad. — Stephanie Garber

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list. — Pliny The Elder

Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind — Munia Khan

My prep team. My foolish, shallow, affectionate pets, with their obsessions with feathers and parties, nearly break my heart with their good-bye. It's — Suzanne Collins

Flight without feathers is not easy. — Plautus

Mary Ann could no more endure a day without reading than she could grow feathers. — Annie Barrows

It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers. — Ilona Andrews

Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor. — Lenny Bruce

Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair. — Laurie Lee

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead. — Alexander Pope

Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked. — Becca Fitzpatrick

How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers. — Kristin Cashore

And maybe ... you are a little fat bear cub with no wings, and no feathers. — Else Holmelund Minarik

I bet souls are better than down feathers. The good ones, anyway. — Shannon Wiersbitzky

His short black hair gleamed like a raven's feathers, off-setting his pale skin and blue eyes so deep they were violet, even in the firelight. — Sarah J. Maas

The bookcase tipped and the book covers opened like wings over an underbelly of white feathers, dirty with ink. — Anthony Marra

Light as feathers the witches fly,
The horn of the moon is plain to see;
By a firefly under a jonquil flower
A goblin toasts a bumble-bee. — Katherine Mansfield

Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath. — Stefan Bachmann

But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers. — Nikolai Gogol

The walls were shedding their texture and taking another in the pouncing feathers. Gwyn — Alan Garner

(By the way, I would not recommend stuffing your pillow with vulture feathers. They're not very comfy.) — Rick Riordan

I wanted to ruffle this man's pretty feathers. Then I wanted to pluck them out and make a fancy headband. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold. — Anne Michaels

I eat so much chicken, I'm surprised I haven't grown feathers yet. — Stone Cold Steve Austin

Arrows of insight have to be winged by the feathers of speculation. — Bernard Cornwell

It was January. Snow was falling; snow had fallen all day. The sky spread like a grey goose's wing from which feathers where falling all over England. — Virginia Woolf

How can you fly? I mean you have wings. Feathers. Did you know you have wings? — Sally Painter

Why am I covered in feathers?"
"I bit a pillow, or two. — Stephenie Meyer

Oh. I didn't know that." "So, you're naming your dog Feathers because ... — Catherine Ryan Hyde

I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers. — Janelle Monae

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors. — Anne Roiphe

Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind's discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you... — Dante Alighieri

Man is a biped without feathers. — Plato

Most of my childhood was spent clinging to the feathers of a dulled arrow blindly fired across a starless night. — Brian K. Vaughan

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin. — William Shakespeare

No self-respecting bird in good health would allow its feathers to look ruffled. No confident cougar would let its fur long remain matted and dirty. — Terry Goodkind

Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it's definitely a Thing with Claws. — Niall Williams

Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers. — Plautus

A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. — George Herbert

What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing. You gotta shake your tail feathers. — Joni Rodgers

So in that dark and tangled night,
the chaw of chaws rose to flight,
with talons bloodied, feathers singed.
A battle won - a war begins! — Kathryn Lasky

Feathers needed, swan preferred. — Shelley Jackson

These words: migrant birds, arriving from distant places with story and metaphor caught in their feathers; — Robert Macfarlane

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. — Stephen King