Preening Feathers Quotes & Sayings

I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined. — Irvin D. Yalom

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them. — Elie Wiesel

Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills but raise their pay in the middle of the night. Many Americans-this columnist included-hitherto said tax increases are justified by the budget deficit now say: Give that mob more money? Never. Not a nickel of new taxes until term limits change the political culture on Capital Hill. — George Will

The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven. — Nicholas Monsarrat

There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press. — John F. Kennedy

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world. — Storm Jameson

thought. "You want some macaroni — Kate DiCamillo

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here. — Jennifer Lawrence

Things like nuclear holocaust. Or carbon monoxide poisoning. Or having to leave the house and interact with people who weren't my mother. — Jenny Lawson

[Tyson] looked him over with that massive baby-brown eye. "You are not dead. I like it when you are not dead."
Ella fluttered to the ground and began preening her feathers. "Ella found a dog," she announced. "A large dog. And a Cyclops." Was she blushing?
Before Percy could decide, his black mastiff pounced on him, knocking Percy to the ground and barking so loudly that even Arion backed up. "Hey, Mrs. O'Leary," Percy said. "Yeah, I love you, too, girl. Good dog."
Hazel squeaked. "You have a hellhound named Mrs. O'Leary?"
"Long story. — Rick Riordan

You both passed out," Percy said. "I don't know why, but Ella told me not to worry about it. She said you were ... sharing?"
"Sharing," Ella agreed. She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with her teeth, which didn't look like a very effective form of personal hygiene. She spit out some red fluff. "Sharing is good. No more blackouts. Biggest American blackout, August 14, 2003. Hazel shared. No more blackouts."
Percy scratched his head. "Yeah ... we've been having conversations like that all night. I still don't know what she's talking about. — Rick Riordan

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. — Johann G. Seume

I see you've met Desire and Fulfillment...Regret is in the kitchen making coffee. — Tom Robbins

She had to admit, she was impressed.
Not that she was going to commence praising on cue. The eagle in him was perfectly capable of preening his own feathers. — Thea Harrison

I will wholeheartedly perform my holy duties. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Men come and go, but dust accumulates. — Terry Pratchett

Don't be afraid of poetry. — Clifton Fadiman