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“People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather.”

People Thinking Knows Bird Mouths Realising Know Me Feathers

“The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. He is a fellow who thoroughly enjoys his work, just as people who enjoy bird walks enjoys theirs. Each new excursion of the essayist, each new 'attempt,' differs from the last and takes him into new country. This delights him. Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.”

People Thinking Men Writing Persons Self Country Happens Lasts Belief Enjoy Interest Walks Bird Fellows Delight Essays Self Centered Liberated Stamina Essayists Excursions

Book:Essays of E. B. White

Source: Essays of E. B. White

“I think of myself as a fairly decent human being and it gives me great pain to be considered for all the mean S.O.B.s that come along. I've played bird decapitators, puppy stranglers, woman beaters, wife poisoners, child molesters - every goddamn thing you can think of. It was quite scene there for a while. But I think the image is changing...I hope to God the old image is fading from people's minds.”

People Thinking Giving Mind Humans Mean Children Pain Human Beings Wife Scene Bird Give Me Decent Puppy Fading Poisoners

Author:George C. Scott

“One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist must fight, the fighter must find peace. If you flow as a river, burn as a fire. If you burn as a furnace, flow as a river. If you fly as a bird, sit firm as a rock. If you sit firmly, then fly as a bird. Be a fire that flows. A rock that flies. Love with fear and fear with love. For we are not fire, not water, not air, not rocks, not thoughts, not deeds, not fear, not love. We are G-dly beings.”

Ifs Thinking Fighting Water Fire Air Rocks Bird Flow Rivers Deeds Fighter Firm Thinker Finding Peace Fear Not Doers Pacifist Furnaces

Author:Menachem Mendel Schneerson

“I'm not planning on giving my kids any of my wealth. They know when their education is over, I'm pushing them out of the nest. The bird you see dead under the nest is the one who didn't think about the future.”

Thinking Knows Giving Kids Wealth Bird Planning Pushing Nests

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.”

Source: Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc

“That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.”

Thinking Children Bird Picks Asking Oscars Finest Wire Your Favorite Caliber Favorite Child

Author:Mel Gibson

“Before birds get sucked into jet engines, do they ever think, Is that Rod Stewart in first class?”

Thinking Firsts Class Bird Engines Jet First Class Jet Engines

Author:Eddie Izzard

“Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz played this hip, real fast thing, and if you weren't a fast listener, you couldn't catch the humor or the feeling in their music. Their musical sound wasn't sweet, and it didn't have harmonic lines that you could easily hum out on the street with your girlfriend trying to get over with a kiss.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Real Feelings Sound Lines Streets Sweet Birth Kissing Bird Musical Reactions Hips Girlfriend Listeners Get Over Items Collectors Dizzy Your Girlfriend

Book:Miles, the autobiography

Source: Miles, the autobiography

“Sesame Street... I think they were all high. With Big Bird, they had to be high.”

Thinking Bigs Streets Bird Sesame Street Big Bird

Author:Pauly Shore

“Alchemy and Kabbalah are later developments in my thinking. I think the primary interest has been the relationship of magic and mystery to logic and understanding. Those are the primary driving forces of my life. I have this ability, for some reason, to be able to hold both the Magical MysteryTour we're on in conjunction with the logical rigor of understanding theoretical physics, which makes me kind of a rare bird, because usually you're one or the other.”

“If some people think, "Why am I eating a dead bird soaked in poop?" I think if some people get disgusted by that, it's all to the good. Their coronary arteries will be healthier.”

People Ifs Thinking Eating Bird Disgusted Poop Arteries

Author:Neal Barnard

“There's a feeling that feels like what I've been told is love. It has to do with what Louis Schwartzberg said today about beauty, love, whether it's squirrels outside my door, the rabbits, or the birds. They're not trying to impress me or anything, and me watching them isn't getting me or advancing me in anything. It's just beautiful. When I think of the relationship I'm in, there's a feeling that comes over me sometimes.”

Thinking Feels Trying Said Sometimes Feelings Today Beautiful Doors Bird Impress Rabbits Advancing Squirrels Beauty Love

Author:Daphne Zuniga

“Back in the day however, careers were strictly built on competitions, just like surfing, though surfing is changing too so you can free surf and still get paid. So I think that rivalry was really because of the fans and the media who built it up, but it did bring something exciting about the sport, just like in any sport, whether it's Larry Bird or Magic Johnson, I think it just made skating that much more exciting.”

Thinking Made Stills Sports Careers Magic Fans Media Bird Built Exciting Paid Competition Surfing Johnson Skating Larry Surf Rivalry Back In The Day

Author:Christian Hosoi

“I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.”

Thinking Want Humans Ideas Quality Bird Human Qualities

Author:Aoife O'Donovan

“I think everybody has a dream of flying at least once in their life. For me, it's been over and over a recurring dream. It's mostly that. That desire to be as free as the birds, to be unhindered. I started off as - and am still - a free solo climber. So being in the air is a huge fear of mine. So there's a combination of going toward my fear as well as being fascinated with the air.”

Thinking Wells Stills Dream Desire Air Mines Huge Bird Flying Combination Fascinated Solo Recurring Climbers Recurring Dreams

Author:Dean Potter

“I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal with the issues of mortality from the first time we see a dead bird as a little child.”

People Thinking Firsts Humans Children Littles Asks Religious Human Beings Deals Issues Events Bird First Time Definitions Mortality Anticipate Future Events

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Seriously, many people have told me they can't eat turkeys anymore after getting to know them. I think in the wider world, when the stories air on the media, they help banish the idea that birds, other than parrots, are somehow lesser.”

People Thinking Knows World Ideas Helping Stories Air Media Bird Turkeys Parrots

Author:Karen Dawn

“I call both the left and right wings socialism. And today, the right-wingers love to think that they're capitalists, or free enterprisers, or what not. No they're not! The correct name for this is left-wing socialism or right-wing socialism - and both wings are on the same bird.”

Thinking Today Names Left Bird Wings Socialism Capitalist Right Wing Left Wing Left And Right

Author:Andrew Joseph Galambos

“Now the roles have been reversed, because the Hillary [Clinton] campaign is livid that they lost, and they think they lost because [Donald] Trump sent out bird whistles, dog whistles, whatever, to the white supremacists out there, and the white supremacists are the ones that came out of the shadows, not the illegal immigrants, the white supremacists came out of the shadows and they got their hoses and they got their whatever else and they started beating up on Democrats and poor Hillary.”

Thinking Has Beens Lost White Poor Roles Dog Trump Bird Shadow Clinton Democrat Campaigns Immigrants Illegal Illegal Immigrants

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The person who has the most influence on me is my mother. Think of life as a flight where we fly higher and higher. If I were a bird that needs feathers to fly higher, I would regard my mother as my strongest feather.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Persons Mother Influence Higher Bird Regard Flight Strongest Feathers

Author:Jane Goodall

“It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from a different perspective. They let us look at birds in a way that makes us never see birds again in the same way. That's why I don't think computers are healthy for kids. They're too literal. You pop a button and a bluebird comes out. You pop another button and you can take the color blue and shove it into the outline of the bluebird.”

Thinking World Way Looks Different Stories Kids Artist Color Perspective Healthy Computer Bird Blue Pops Buttons Literal Outlines Different Perspective Bluebird Color Blue

Author:Julie Taymor

“Sometimes you think "Okay, well I'm going to play my horn, and I'm going to study Charlie "Bird" Parker solos or [John Coltrain] or whatever." But as [Phil Wood] said to me, "Man, Bird listened to everything."”

Thinking Men Wells Said Sometimes Play Study Bird Okay Woods Solo Horns Charlie

Author:Jon Gordon

“[Charlie "Bird" Parker] would sit down and ask [Phil Wood], "What do you think about this whole secondary Viennese school with Schoenberg, Berg and Webern? Are you listening to that music and what do you feel about it?" These were the conversations that he was having. And he also said, what he learned from Charlie Parker was, not that he studied with him in the formal sense, is that the first thing that Charlie Parker would always ask was, "Did you eat today?".”

Thinking Feels Firsts Said Whole Today School Asks Listening Conversation Bird Down And Woods Formal Charlie Schoenberg Webern

Author:Jon Gordon

“Throughout all of human history we have consumed the natural world. All creatures do. Birds do. Fish do. Earthworms do. We consume the natural world as a source of our survival. But no creature has ever consumed at the scale that humans have, and now there are seven billion of us. I think the good news is that a large percentage of those seven billion minds can work to make better decisions.”

Thinking World Mind Natural Decision Survival Bird Seven Natural World

Author:Sylvia Earle

“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.”

“If we are not personally engaged in God's great mission in the world, then we have missed the very thing he created us to do. We are like birds meant to fly but living in a cage; fish meant to swim but floundering on the beach. It makes sense when you think about it. If the Author of the universe created us to play a key role in his unfolding drama but we have failed to find our place in that story, then of course we would feel incomplete.”

Thinking World Universe Drama Bird Beach Make Sense Swim Incomplete

Book:Unfinished: Filling the Hole in Our Gospel

Source: Unfinished: Filling the Hole in Our Gospel

“My dreams tend to be like dog dreams. I'm usually so tired that I hardly dream at all. In a way, I do think that the zone one performs in - without getting too ooga-booga about it - it's like that moment when you wake up in the morning and you're emerging from a dream state but you're not quite up. Where are you? Can you hear the birds? Or is that the traffic? It's that zone in which I perform. It’s like one foot in reality and one foot in a dream state. I spend most of my life in that state!”

Thinking Moments Dream Reality Morning Dog Bird Wake Up Tired Zone Emerging

Author:Cate Blanchett

“Eventually, I think, by using such elements as flocks of birds or biblical quotes, repeatedly I add meaning to my final product. I'm still exploring how to express my feelings through these elements. I've always felt that in order to portray humans, you should not be shooting humans; you should be shooting something else. And what I've used is animals, which are very important in my films.”

Thinking Important Feelings Film Animal Bird Biblical Exploring

Author:Mamoru Oshii

“I don't think in biology it's very controversial at all. Whether certain behavior is culture or is not culture is argued. I think virtually all biologists would agree that some animal behavior is culture. Bird song is a good example.”

Thinking Song Culture Animal Behavior Bird Agree Biology Controversial Biologist

Author:Hal Whitehead

“I do think that our bodies are capable of many magical and inexplicable things that have nothing to do with reproduction. I have read that some birds may sing just for pleasure and not for any other Darwinian imperative. Birds singing because it feels good - that's the kind of biology that helps me understand this diverse world.”

Thinking World Kind Helping Pleasure Capable Singing Bird Feel Good Help Me Biology Diverse

Author:Jenny Johnson

“In North Korea, we never learned to think critically. There is no concept of individualism. The government treated us as less valuable than animals. You can't even stay overnight at someone's house without permission from the police. My mother warned me not to say - or even think - anything bad about our "dear leader," Kim Jong Il, because "even the birds and mice can hear you whisper."”

Thinking Mother House Animal Leader Bird Police Dear Valuable Individualism Mice North Korea

Author:Park Yeon-mi

“I think I'm an optimistic person. Ultimately I believe in people. I believe they can be robust. When my collection Delicate Edible Birds came out there were one or two people who read the title as being a commentary on the characters within the pages, the women in the book, meaning that they were these fragile girls meant for male consumption. But I had meant the opposite - these people are tough. Dark things happen to them but they get on with life as best they can.”

People Thinking Believe Book Character Girl I Believe Dark Bird Tough Things Happen Optimistic Delicate

Author:Lauren Groff

“I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they look like they're wearing tuxedos.”

People Thinking Humans Looks May Bird Cute Penguins Tuxedos

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.”

Thinking Knows Trying Kind War Left Bits Tree Land Waste Bird Emptiness Starks Scenery Waste Land

Author:George Martin

“Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.”

Thinking Done Born Five Drama Equal Bird Islands Agency Fifth Detectives Messengers Highlights Jamaica

Author:David Oyelowo

“I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?”

People Thinking Believe Beautiful Song Crazy Singing Bird Madness Don't Believe Believe In God There Is No God

Author:Little Richard

“I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”

Thinking Enough Goal Too Much Military Bird Army Luck Worms Good Luck Bad Luck Early Bird Good Night And Good Luck

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.”

Thinking Knows Kind Persons Self Beautiful Faces Used Hate Black Animal Results Bird Ugly Pops All Kinds I've Learned Black Women Squirrels Camels Self Hate

Author:Mary J. Blige

“Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror.”

Thinking Way Should Beautiful Love Is Sky Movement Wind Bird Terror Bones Landscape Touched Wilderness Smallest Leafs Exquisite Dusk Wonderland Wild Birds

Author:Truman Capote

“Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is. You realize that nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary, and precious. But to go on with your daily affairs, you can't really think about that... which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly. It's very confusing. I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up. Hobbes: No doubt.”

“He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide around in front of him free as two white birds until he notices them and traps them between his knees; it bothers him that he's got pretty hands.”

Thinking Long Two Sometimes Hands White Fronts Bird Bother Knees Traps Soap Dainty White Birds

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of." "Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds." "What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?”

Thinking Wells Bits Term Common Bird Silly Rational Irrational Phobia Irrational Fear

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

Thinking Want Inspirational Spiritual Worry Bird Life Changing Purpose Of Life Sufi Not Worrying Inspirational Sufi Sufi Love

Author:Rumi

“I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.”

Thinking Said Ends Stories Used Stars Bird Wings Tales Nurse

Book:Princess Academy

Source: Princess Academy

“Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."”

“Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.”

People Thinking Knows Men Feels Littles Enough Feelings Animal Cities Morning Flower Bird Sake Gestures Verses

Book:Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

“When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.”

Thinking Knows Eye Night Voice Dark Darkness Sun Happened Heard Tree Sky Cry Quiet Safe Lows Bird Clouds Burning Remembered Breasts Rays Nests Faded Grove Hurrying Murmuring

Book:Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949

Source: Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949

“Hugo attacked me." Clary tried not to wince as the astringent liquid stung her wounds. Hugo?" Luke blinked. Hodge's bird. I think it was his bird, anyway. Maybe it was Valentine's." Hugin," Luke said softly. "Hugin and Munin were Valentine's pet birds. Their names mean 'Thought' and 'Memory.'" Well they should mean 'Attack' and 'Kill,'" said Clary. "Hugo almost tore my eyes out.”

Thinking Should Wells Mean Said Eye Names Memories Bird Wounds Pet Valentine Liquid Luke Wince

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.”

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