Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?
O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!
I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'
Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams!
Benson Henderson is a professional; he's a champion. He knows how to handle himself in the cage and he knows how to win fights.
There is no word for time.
Today we will
not think to number another summer
or watch its white bird into the ground.
He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.
In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.
I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.
I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.
I just felt that Danny Rand within the Luke Cage universe... I just felt that he was going to be dope.
I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.
This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.
Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.
There was a rumor I was walking around at 183 pounds. When I left my room to fight Conor McGregor, I was 179 pounds. That means by the time I walked in the cage, I was probably 175, 174 pounds.
Like a bird with broken wing
that has traveled through wind for years . . .
I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .
I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
The more fights I have the more relaxed I get in cage or ring. It's all about experience. It's something that I try to do because I fight better when I am relaxed.
I like fighting, man. I didn't get into this sport not to fight. I enjoy fighting; I actually enjoy getting in the cage.
Until I have that belt, defended that belt and left a legacy with my name and what I've done in that cage, then I'll have time to relax and take in what I've done.
If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know.
Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage... more disgusting by nature than maggots oozing out the carcass of a dead animal.
To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.
Try and inject into every commercial you make a touch of singularity; a bird that will hook on to the consumers mind
We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.
If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.
The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.
When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird
When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.
Whatever situation you are in, right now, take the authority of Jesus and begin to command that devil out of your life! That cage of infirmity/ setback/ poverty - BE OPENED, in the name of Jesus Christ!
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
I live in the country. I'm a bird-watcher, an oyster-raiser. You know, I'll do anything that - raise dogs for the blind as a volunteer.
When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.
'The Wire' is, by far, my favorite television show of all time. And I've always said that my aspirations for 'Luke Cage' was that it would be 'The Wire' of the Marvel television universe.
The primary thing that I enjoy about Luke Cage is that he has a morality about him but it's conflicted. He's never sure what the right move is, but he at least contemplates it. He's a not a rash character. It's that thoughtfulness that I really identify with.
I've said it before, every day in the cage, I'm trying to be consistent and keep my load and keep my body right and my mind right.
I'm going to leave it all out in the cage and know that I'm trying to finish my opponent, even knowing that most of my time it ain't going to be a finish.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.
As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It's about the least flavorful bird on the planet.
In the cage, you can't say, 'Oh wait, that's off limits.' There's no timeouts, there's no substitutions and there's no saying my knee is off limits. This is a full contact sport.
I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.
I can't take 200 hacks in the cage before the game. Not because I'll get tired, but because I'll hurt myself! I can't do that. I might get injured.
I busted my bird for 60 years in the business, but my grandkids only know me as Mr. Potato Head.
That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.
Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.
For many, whether they go to prison or not is far less about the choices they make and far more about what kind of cage they're born into.
Some people fight and stuff outside the cage, but I never liked that sort of thing. I just always wanted to do martial arts and I finally did it at 22 years old, so later in life, but it's all good.
Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.
Ah, to be a bird. To fly the skies, sing my song, and best of all occasionally peck someone's eyes out.
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
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