Top 1200 Fine Feathers Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

If someone wants to shout at me and tell me I'm bowling badly, that's fine. I may not agree but it's fine. It's part of the experience of being a touring cricketer.

No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine.

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

When you're surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it's impossible not to have a smile on your face.

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

I don't even use italics or boldface; that's clutter, not clarity. Fancy fonts are fine for blogs, just as calligraphy is fine for diaries. But when you're writing for anyone other than yourself, you want to get as universal as possible.

I showed my chin was fine when I fought Tim Sylvia in the Philippines, when our fight was a no contest. He landed a good straight right hand at the end of the first round and I was fine. I survived and knocked him out.

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.

If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.

A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.

Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.

I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.

I was on my bike, cycling to Stanford, and it struck me that a week had gone by without my having a phone. And everything was just fine. Better than fine, actually. I felt more relaxed, carefree, happier.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.

I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner as to obtain the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing.

Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.

If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.

Bankruptcy, divorce, these are feathers in my cap, I suppose. I have a wisdom which has been born from these things.

After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.

The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

You might be a redneck if a full-grown ostrich has fewer feathers than your cowboy hat.

It is true I am rather taken up with dress; but as to feathers, every one wears them, and it would seem extraordinary if I did not.

Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one.

The fact that I'm obviously well enough to be playing - in fine fettle and fine singing voice, yet I am not playing with The Libertines - is a sore point.

'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'

Criticism is fine and conversation is fine, but the person who's criticizing should know what they're saying and whom they're criticizing.

My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."

I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.

If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine.

In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.

Hillary Clinton's done nothing, all she's done is tell everybody that the vets are in good shape. They're fine. And they're not fine. People are waiting in line for seven days to see a doctor.

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

I don't think the Beatles were that good. I think they're fine, you know. Ringo's got the best backbeat I've ever heard... Paul is a fine bass player... but he's a bit overpowering at times.

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

'Too big to fail' is fine for restaurant chains. If Denny's fails, it's fine for this economy. You can always go down to the TGIFs. But that's not the same for large-scale investment companies.

If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.

I want to tell everyone, 'You're perfectly fine right now.' No one told me that.. I hope people can think, 'I'm great the way I am. I'm doing fine. Even if I can't reach the criteria of success measured and necessitated by society, even if I'm weeded out, I'm beautiful the way I am. I'm pretty, I'm perfectly fine without having to think about other people's opinions and stereotypes.'

I love the intensity of the fine-dining kitchen, but loathe the fine-dining experience.

Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

Any time you make a big statement about something in the world, you are bound to ruffle some feathers.

I am fine if I am on a red carpet - I know what to do. You stop and smile and pose for a picture and that's fine.

I do what I believe in. I do good work, and the people who appreciate it, fine, and those who don't, fine, that's good.

What I care most about is representing my constituents. If that ruffles a few feathers along the way, so be it.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Everybody tells me, 'You're going to be fine.' Well, I know I'm going to be fine.

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

There are some days when I can do my thing and be in the world and walk around, and it's fine. And then there are other days where it's totally not fine, and I want to crawl into a hole and die. And it's the most invasive and worst.