Cowbirds Eggs Quotes & Sayings

Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key? — Gregory Maguire

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders. — Gary Cole

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang. — Ike Turner

Turn off all notifications; you should control when you want information, not the reverse. — Arianna Huffington

Pall
Oh, yes, she could feel it/even though the bullet/had never stabbed her skin./ The bright white heat/ burned at her core/ where two lives/ beat, and if he'd aimed/ there and pulled the trigger,/red would have crested/ like a broken dam/ over her hands/ as her last word rushed/ up to her throat
Paul
/ a sound that took no time and also lifetimes. — Jenny Hubbard

There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged? But alas! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveller with their chattering and unmusical notes. Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter? — Henry David Thoreau

Men and women aren't too dissimilar. — Chris Evans