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“Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.”

Running Our Lives Car Up And Down Georgia Larks Bandits

Author:Jerry Reed

“My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am.”

Years Character Mother Names Forget Saws Decided Stuck Here I Am Larks Lead Characters

Author:Lark Voorhies

“I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.”

Firsts Persons Kids School Class High School Yale Larks

Author:Maya Lin

“Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.”

Years Moving Acting New York Luck Moved Dumb Opera Auditions Soap Soap Operas Larks Dumb Luck

Author:Teddy Sears

“The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.”

Ifs Littles Past Form Air Strange Bird Embrace Setting Settings Chains Halls Flew Alchemy Unbroken Timelessness Larks Ascending Anglo Saxon English Music

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all the joy of life, And we in the mad spring weather, We two have listened till he sang Our hearts and lips together.”

Heart Two Play Together Joy Song Spring Gold Mad Lips Weather Joy Of Life I Love Him Flutes Nightingales Larks Blackbirds

Book:A Book of Verses

Source: A Book of Verses

“What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?”

Beautiful Animal Creatures Feathers Larks Taming Taming Of The Shrew

Author:William Shakespeare

“The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!”

Ifs Thinking Should Would Be Musician Perfection Seasons Praise Crow Geese Nightingales Larks Wrens

Author:William Shakespeare

“Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.”

Morning Soar Hawks Larks

Book:The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens [sic], and Reed, with glossarial notes

Source: The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens [sic], and Reed, with glossarial notes

“Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi”

Long Spirit Night Walks Planets Birth Bird Seasons Strikes Fairy All Night Saviour Larks

Author:William Shakespeare

“The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.”

Littles Soar Larks

Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.”

Sweet Lovers Court Lays Complaining Quitting Trembling Soothing Spray Larks

Book:The Canongate Burns

Source: The Canongate Burns

“No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.”

Air Wings Lists Larks

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope. Recommendatory poems. A discourse on pastoral poetry. Pastorals. Messiah. Windsor forest. Odes. Two chorus's to the tragedy of Brutus. The dying Christian to his soul. An essay on criticism. The rape of the lock. Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady. Prologue to Mr. Addison's tragedy of Cato. Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope. Recommendatory poems. A discourse on pastoral poetry. Pastorals. Messiah. Windsor forest. Odes. Two chorus's to the tragedy of Brutus. The dying Christian to his soul. An essay on criticism. The rape of the lock. Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady. Prologue to Mr. Addison's tragedy of Cato. Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore

“And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.”

Song Left Approach Rings Nests Larks Tow

Book:Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton

Source: Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton

“To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.”

Night Watches Sky Singing Flight Dawn Dull Towers Larks

Book:Complete Shorter Poems

Source: Complete Shorter Poems

“My curiosity sister of larks.”

Curiosity Larks

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.”

Looks May Sea Tomorrow Sorrow Wide Fortunate Dawn Each Day Chairs Pace Idle Lawns Elbows Morrow Hail Pads Carols Ponies Larks Less Fortunate Blithe

Author:John Churton Collins

“Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.”

Heart Pain Silence Cold Evolution Shadow Clouds Sparks Ashes Rapture Dusk Larks

Book:Poems by John B Tabb

Source: Poems by John B Tabb

“To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.”

Bed Lambs Larks

Author:Nicholas Breton

“A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder.”

Nature Sun Clouds Shoulders Hills Rolling October Larks Whistling Roadside Blackbirds

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!”

Men Language Effort Morning Sky Fields He Man Flower Wings Flight Liberated Vigorous Serene Luminous Larks Voiceless Morning Sky

Book:Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book

Source: Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book

“There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee; He worked and sang, from morn to night; No lark so blithe as he. And this the burden of his song, Forever used to be, "I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me.”

Ifs Care Used Night Song Forever Rivers Burden Used To Be Contentment I Care Jolly Larks No One Cares Blithe

Author:Isaac Bickerstaffe

“I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten yourself in straining your eyes after the mounting lark, or in wandering through the still lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred silent beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of my descriptive catalogue?”

Ifs Stills Use Might Would Be Eye Divine Spring Sacred Silent Forgotten Wander Charm Lanes Aisle Catalogues Larks Spring Day

Book:Adam Bede ... Tenth edition

Source: Adam Bede ... Tenth edition

“Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.”

Morning Sea Sky Summer Breeze Bark Swans Larks Morning Sky

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark.”

Littles Light Force Heaven Space Sun Tiny Golden Flight Realms Sparks Soar Linked Worms Eagles Wondrous Larks Glow Worms

Book:Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings

Source: Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings

“When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.”

Children Made Mother Snow Ice Kitchen Divinity Eggs Sugar Cream Associates Ice Cream Larks Fudge Snowstorms Pecans

Book:Occasions: Selected Writings

Source: Occasions: Selected Writings

“Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings.”

Character Artist Fun Felt Enjoy Drawing Having Fun Jerry Larks

Author:Joe Shuster

“I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something youre really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesnt go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact.”

Thinking Kind Ideas Ends Sometimes Bigs Sides Information Proud Creating Impact Spread Larks Big Impact

Author:Jonah Peretti

“Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.”

“Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.”

Knows Moments Behinds Know How Forever Doors Sky Protect Bird Bars Innocence Bolts Hawks Grove Caged Dodge Larks Vulture

Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.”

Soul Teach Sky My Soul Thee Lifts Larks

Book:The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

“None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.”

Heaven Clear Wings Gates Waking Larks

Book:John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work

Source: John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work

“A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.”

Made Rocks Food Cooking Lays Golden Culinary Fossils Pigeons Larks Quails Pasties

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“I walk where once the grass was green And mourn the lark that sings no more What bird could sing whose eyes have seen Broken blossoms on the field of war?”

War Eye Walks Fields Broken Bird Green Grass Mourn Larks

Author:Tom Springfield

“Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards. Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow. At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens. Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.”

Firsts Heart Left Heaven Grows Higher My Heart Spring Bird Filled Rose Clouds Deeper Eagles Flew Larks

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.”

Trying Whole Acting Class College Whole Life Get Better Like Something Acting Classes Larks

Author:Ebon Moss-Bachrach

“The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal.”

Thinking Men Spirit Fighting Sleep Generations Ideals Wake Up Impulse Fortunate Incarnation Good Fight Larks

Book:Within this Present

Source: Within this Present

“Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.”

America Novel Majors Height Finest Larks

Author:Robert Olen Butler

“Being blessed with good health gives you the strength and loving what you do and - is a privilege that keeps you going. So I'm just happy as a lark.”

Giving Blessed Privilege Good Health Being Blessed Larks Loving What You Do

Author:Betty White

“Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.”

Lord Feet Sweet Crowds Bees Skip Larks Giddy Clovers Grasshoppers Hang Over

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And let us have a lark instead.”

Writing Sex Brain Sight Dull Verses Foul Owl Larks

Book:Memorials: In 2 Vol

Source: Memorials: In 2 Vol

“Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.”

Thinking Men Example Bird Flying Chickens Larks

Author:Albert Einstein

“Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants, And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.”

Country Mountain Court Evening Cells Contemplation Meadows Grove Larks

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D.

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D.

“I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.”

People Thinking Retiring Good Health Time To Think Larks

Author:Betty White

“But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!"”

Firsts Found Poor Sky Strange Spring Flight Aviation Heavenly Sigh Pathways Rapture Larks

Author:Florence Earle Coates

“His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.”

Eye Lying Water Sweet Flower Spring Arise Golden Mary Bud Larks Winking Golden Eye

Author:William Shakespeare

“I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than the other. I also did a milk round for a day. It was awful. I was a very surly milkman, because it was very cold, very dark and very early. I am a lark, not an owl, but not in winter when it's chilly. Apart from that I went straight into gardening at 15.”

Ifs Looks Stills Dark Cold Paper West Rounds Winter Shoulders Awful Milk Gardening Owl Larks Chilly Surly Milkman

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.”

Firsts Lasts Pleasure Air Eternal Singing Silent Sweetness Soar Larks

Book:The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: Paradiso

Source: The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: Paradiso

“In nature everything is valuable, everything has its place. The rose, the daisy, the lark, the squirrel, each is different but beautiful. Each has its own expression. Each flower its' own fragrance. Each bird its' own song. So you too have your own unique melody.”

Different Beautiful Song Expression Flower Unique Bird Rose Valuable Melody Fragrance Daisies Squirrels Larks

Author:Diane Dreher

“Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were constantly being surprised.”

Men Long Song Dangerous Incredibles Verses Chorus Majestic Larks Grunge

Author:Martin Popoff