Quotes by Bird When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see. Don DeLillo house bird looks Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of sunlight and the sound of birds singing and spring showers. I will also be open to receiving from others, whether it is in the form of a material gift, a compliment or a prayer. Deepak Chopra prayer spring bird I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me. Donald Hall sleep writing bird For me - showing a half-finished manuscript is tricky. Just as a bird will get spooked and abandon her eggs if some outside party comes around and makes too much noise or pokes around the nest too intrusively - well, that's what it's like for me if I show work too early and I get a lot of editorial suggestions at the wrong time. Donna Tartt eggs party bird Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each other - or build themselves nests as described in The Birds' Decorating Magazine. Dorothy Draper design robins bird The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge. Donald Miller porridge bird today Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds. Dorothy Thompson law bird men This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella. Dorothy Parker horse liars bird Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed. Dorothy Day feds air bird Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it. Douglas Kennedy space blue bird Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free. Douglas Adams evil names bird He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. Douglas Adams berries weight bird A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? Drew Barrymore imperfection bird love My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold. Dr. Seuss shoes feet bird The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be. Douglas Adams hug bird life You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. Dr. Seuss places-you-go feet bird I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway. Duane Michals photography writing bird Many images of animals, mammals or birds, resurface regularly in my narratives. They are not symbols, but chromatic benchmarks. For me, music has always been the perfect construction - an inaccessible ideal. Dumitru Tepeneag perfect animal bird Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. Douglas Coupland miracle may bird The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once. Douglas Coupland eye bird lying «1112131415161718192021»