Plumed Bird Quotes & Sayings

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in time of war, — Geoffrey Hill

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. — Lynda Barry

To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. — Noam Chomsky

Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival. — Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed. — Plato

The rock has split, the egg has hatched, the prismatically plumed bird of life has escaped from its cage. It spreads its wings and is perched now on the peak of the huge African mountain Kilimanjaro.
Strange recompense, in the depths of our despair at the unfathomable mist into which all mankind is plunging, a curious force awakens. It is Hope long asleep, aroused once more. Wilson has taken an army of advisers and sailed for England. The ship has sunk. But the men are all good swimmers. They take the women on their shoulders and buoyed on by the inspiration of the moment they churn the free seas with their sinewy arms, like Ulysses, landing all along the European seaboard.
Yes, hope has awakened once more in men's hearts. It is NEW! Let us go forward!
The imagination, freed from the handcuffs of "Art", takes the lead! Her Feet are bare and not too delicate. In fact those who come behind her have much to think of. Hm. Let it pass. — William Carlos Williams

The world of wonders! — Lailah Gifty Akita

You couldn't really say that something that hurts so badly feels good exactly. It's more that it just feels right. And something that feels so right just couldn't be bad. It has to be good. — Julia Hoban

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals. — Ken Thompson

On still another road, a green-haired man wobbled by on peppermint-stick stilts; a fiery-plumed bird of paradise perched on his shoulder. But he's not in this story, so don't pay any attention to him. — Christopher Healy

The pull between us is electric. I feel it instantly when I meet his eyes. It's almost tangible. I find myself wanting to hurl myself into his body, and curl up, possibly never to leave.
God, I need to get a grip.
Who am I?
A pod-person, obviously. — Cassie Graham

The best calumnies are spiced with truth. — George R R Martin

With McQueen you have so much at your fingertips. That is what's so incredible about this place. Lee built an amazing house, an English house - and that is very important - where creativity rules, where you can do whatever you want to do for the shows because no one's saying: where's your basic dress, where's your three button jacket? — Sarah Burton

If we are really committed, we better get start taking care of our shit. — M.F. Moonzajer

Election is the only course of action that identifies liars before they are in power. — M.F. Moonzajer

Some (sea)shells have magic in them. If you listen really closely, you can hear voices from another world. — Tom McAllister

Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment. — John Oates