Top 1200 Fine Feathers Quotes & Sayings

The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.

I feel fine in St Petersburg, my family is fine and my son is fine.

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.

Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm tear up at the root and topple like a crown, The pine crack at the base - we had to watch them all. The ash, the lovely cedar. We had to watch them fall. They went so softly under the loud flails of air, Before that fury they went down like feathers, With all the hundred springs that flowered in their hair, and all the years, endured in all the weathers - To fall as if they were nothing, as if they were feathers.

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Words and feathers the wind carries away.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers.

If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies.

'Fine casual' means taking the cultural priorities that fine dining, at its best, believes in.

I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.

I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art of plucking feathers without killing the bird. It's time they realized the bird just doesn't have any feathers left.

We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith.

England have players who can rattle anyone's feathers

I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'

Feathers predate birds.

Ska is fine. Punk is fine. Putting those two together drove us crazy.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers. [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.] [Alt., Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.]

I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

Hope is a thing with feathers

Feathers! spluttered Sargatanas. Feathers are for the birds, my boy. Flaking, peeling, scale-ridden wings, now that's what real beings wear. I'll tell you a secret. He said, and drew me closer. The eternal pain at having known Paradise and lost it is priceless. I wouldn't swap it for anything.

The amusing thing about 'X-Force' is that it was highly rated - and hated - in about equal measure, Which suited me just fine. If no-one's feathers were a little ruffled, we probably wouldn't have been doing our jobs right.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

What dinosaur traits are missing from an ostrich? The ostrich has a toothless beak, but there are mutations that cause teeth and claws to come back to their mouth and limbs. You need to replace the feathers with scales, but there are no feathers on their legs and feet, so you just need to make its whole body like its legs are.

I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.

Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

Man is a biped without feathers.

Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.

Our liquidity is fine. As a matter of fact, it's better than fine. It's strong.

Why am I covered in feathers

Fine worries, like fine wines, are at their best only after they have been properly mellowed.

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible.

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.

Skimming is fine for our emails, but it's not fine for some of the important forms of reading.

How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

Flight without feathers is not easy.

I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

How are you managing? And don't say you're fine." It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.

As far as any personal records, if I get 'em, fine, and if I don't, fine.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.