Albatross Love Quotes & Sayings

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. — Erich Fromm

I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages. — Quincy Jones

Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say.
I do. But I like to hear you say it.
Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down ... tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens ... makes her a home. — Joss Whedon

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin. — Paul Klee

Would you mind telling Xavier that if
he doesn't want to become an albatross,
he should stop laughing, Evie mutters,
which only makes him laugh harder. — Amy A. Bartol

We must ... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be filled with objects - it is a pure theory of manifolds. — Hans Reichenbach

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong. — Ron White

I feel like human beings cover up their scent with all these different things and products. I feel like we've given up our ability to engage with people because we don't know how people smell anymore. — Nikki Reed

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. (Naipaul...but it could be me if the thousands of tweets are anything to go by.) — Brian O'Hare

As for me, I used to be a bird
with a gentle white womb,
someone cut my throat
just for laughs,
I don't know.
As for me, I used to be a great albatross
and whirled over the seas.
Someone put an end to my journey,
without any charity in the tone of it.
But even stretched out on the ground
I sing for you now
my songs of love. — Alda Merini

Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden ... Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy. — Julie Moir Messervy

In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man! — Friedrich Nietzsche

The wicked beauty elicited, what was hoped to be, a misplaced shiver. Nonetheless, being near family vaulted to number one priority; the sooner the better, or so I was inclined to believe. Intuition tingled then hollowed my stomach; importance of home was becoming paramount; no stopping for beer and a fresh pack of smokes, not today. Something was different about that storm - darker, more ominous than usual. — Daniel Lance Wright

When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine hygeine product. — Dave Barry

At her core, she was broken, and life was just one long attempt to distract people from noticing — Patrick Ness

we all have gifts and talents and passions that are meant to meet the needs of others. What good does it do if we sit on those, never offering a helping hand where it's needed? Especially if we're able or have the resources to help. — Diane Moody