Quotes by Bird We found the future, like birds fly into windows. Austin Kleon chaos bird window Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage. Ayaan Hirsi Ali islam doors bird No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds. Banesh Hoffmann flight light bird I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off. Barbara Corcoran tiny flying bird Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life. Barbara Kingsolver nests safe bird How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want. Barbara Kingsolver want bird book Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper. Barbara Kingsolver skulls swim bird In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them into his mouth like a jujube. It seemed to please him a lot. He offered a baby bird to me, pantomiming that I should eat it. I understood perfectly well what he meant, but I refused. He did not seem disappointed to have to eat the whole brood himself. Barbara Kingsolver tree bird baby Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them. Barbara Mertz writing bird looks Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds. Barnett Newman ornithology bird art Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds. Barnett Newman ornithology artist bird Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate and chewed their way across vast areas of pastureland as well as any garden that came their way. Attempts to control them by introducing ferrets, weasels and stoats did much more harm than good. Although these predators probably killed a reasonable number of rabbits, they also devastated populations of kiwi and raided the nests of flighted birds. Bee Dawson garden numbers bird How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! Belva Plain caught desire bird I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies - as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers. Ben Hecht australia kind bird Poets are far rarer birds than kings. Ben Jonson poet kings bird London is a roost for every bird. Benjamin Disraeli roost london bird Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot. Benjamin Franklin missing sea bird Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best. Bernard Meltzer using-your-talents bird giving In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself. Berthold Auerbach swamps nature bird Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other's faces. Bertolt Brecht squirrels perspective bird «23456789101112»