Small Songbirds Quotes & Sayings

You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them. — Luke Scott

Marv's a guy you've got to be careful around. He doesn't mean any harm, but he causes plenty. — Frank Miller

She was a carnival to watch--at
times primly coy, posing, grimacing and gesturing--sometimes the
shadow fell and the dignity of old suffering flowed down into her
finger tips. — F Scott Fitzgerald

This life is difficult. We lose fathers, brothers, mothers, songbirds and pieces of ourselves. Whips strike the innocent, honors go to the guilty, and there is too much loneliness. I would be a fool to pray for my children to escape all of that. Ask for too much and it might actually turn out worse. But I can pray for small things, like fertile fields, a mother's love, a child's smile - a life that's less bitter than sweet. — Nadia Hashimi

I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people. — Daniel Bruhl

Not because of the perfect landing, but because he left so much fuel behind. Hundreds of liters of unused hydrazine. Each molecule of hydrazine has four hydrogen atoms in it. — Andy Weir

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; — Robert Louis Stevenson

Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life. — Kangana Ranaut

Hear that, Eustace? He wishes we were staying a good long time."
"I expect it will seem a good long time," said Eustace, philosophically. — P.G. Wodehouse

If the proper preparations have been made and the necessary precautions taken, any staged event is guaranteed success
Ethelred The Unready — Robert Asprin

Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they've been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created. — Neil Gaiman

In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction. — Kathleen Rooney

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium. — Alexander McQueen

Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live. — Esther Hicks

How do you even know when you're anywhere near marrying someone? Is that question about time? Or distance? — Rainbow Rowell

Doesn't anyone ever call you that, among all your many nicknames?' she wondered as they walked back through to the hall. 'Call me what?' '"Lightning" Strike? — Robert Galbraith