Top 1200 Fine Feathers Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

I think the canary left some feathers in there after you ate it.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

People always think I'm not scared. I've noticed that whenever I feel stressed, everyone thinks I'm fine, and later, it's like, 'I was not fine.'

Feathers are light; but when they come together, they become heavy!

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

If you're not ruffling feathers at CPAC, I don't think you're doing a very good job.

I'm not seven foot, I'm about 6'9', 6'10', around that area. It's fine, I really don't care if I'm not as tall as everyone says I am. I'm doing fine.

The contracts for 'Idol' are definitely very intimidating at first. There's lots of fine, fine details that you have to read through.

No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. But no service or hospitality? That's going too far.

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.

People think that footballers just have a kick around with their mates. If they win, fine; if they don't, that's then fine, too. No pasa nada. No. You have an obligation and responsibility.

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting.

We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.

The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.

I'm very bold and say what I feel. That doesn't mean I ruffle feathers. It means I'm being honest.

There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.

I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always.

For me, it's fine to be aggressive and play hard. As long as you're not getting personal, it's fine, and you can do whatever you can to upset the opposition.

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

At an early age, if you develop a delivery or a throwing motion that is direct to the plate, then that's fine. If you have one that's slightly open, that's fine, too.

I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something wrong with that?" "Absolutely.

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

If people want to keep their kid on their insurance at 26, fine. We've got to make sure no American gets turned back for pre-existing conditions, that's fine.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry.

With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine, if you've given it your whole heart and soul. You're totally in sync with your purpose and with the universe. And that's fine.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

It's fine," I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.

I love the way I look. I'm fine with it. And if my body changes, I'll be fine with that.

Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I thought, 'Whatever hits, I'll go that direction. If it's music, fine; if it's acting, fine.'

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty house without any clothes on, even once she was too old for that. Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me. She loved to jump on her bed. She jumped on her bed for so many years that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?

I eat so much chicken, I'm surprised I haven't grown feathers yet.

Obama is a very fine writer with an excellent command of language. His memoir 'Dreams From My Father' is a fine book, but it will not rank as one of the great autobiographies.

Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.

As far as 'Trainspotting' changing my life, I think I've said before I probably squandered a few opportunities. But I'm fine with that because everything's fine.

Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.

We've always been divided by some of these big political issues. It's fine. As long as we treat each other with respect and remember that ultimately, we're all Americans, we'll be fine.

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.

Being the best right now doesn't do anything for my feathers.

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked.

What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend.