Unfeathered Eagle Quotes & Sayings

I'm a poet who has lost his words." He looks across the street, but not before I catch the dull glint of shame in his eyes.

"Where did you lose them?" I ask, gentling my tone.

He turns back to me. When he speaks, his voice is so small that I have to lean closer to hear it. "The same place I lost myself. — A.J. Compton

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent. — Jostein Gaarder

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes. — George Santayana

There is also present in every human being, in everyone's biography-although sometimes harrowing cases of systematic neglect, present in the matter of absence, so if longing for that which never was there then too, deeply suspect, should have been. — Paul Ricoeur

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. — Nelson DeMille

Why wasn't I already kissing this woman? Why wasn't I naked, eating violets, and playing music underneath the open sky?
Looking around the room again, everything seemed terribly ridiculous. These people sitting on their benches wearing layers on layers of clothing, eating with knives and forks. It all struck me as so pointless and contrived. It was incredibly funny. It was like they were playing a game and didn't even realize it. It was like a joke I'd never understood before. — Patrick Rothfuss

Certainty is the place where questions go to die. — Dee Hock

Looking is an important part of Stanwyck's acting: many performers have beautiful eyes (for example, Henry Fonda), or use their eyes expressively (most remarkably, perhaps, Bette Davis), but few use them so attentively to observe and survey others and the world [as Stanwyck]. — Andrew Klevan

When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it. — J. Michael Straczynski