Bird Envy Quotes

#1. This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.' We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we've been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.

Adam Gollner

#2. She wakes up loving him, but not hard enough. He has dandelion hair. Stars fall and zip between them, they can't stop laughing; she falls asleep curled around him like a comma. He is gay, and often, he reminds her that she deserves better. She nods seriously and then forgets.

Meg Pokrass

#3. I should have been sending up flares, instead I was offering smiles.

Lisa Unger

#4. No bird in a cage has ever come to know what the mountain winds feel like, by staring at the free flying birds, wishing that they would fall from the sky!

C. JoyBell C.

#5. Timothy Keller says my problem was not the situation I was in; rather, I struggled because I built my identity on something other than Jesus.

Laurel Griffith

#6. Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#7. All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

Warren Zevon

#8. The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.

Brian Herbert

#9. Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. 'We are the free birds. They want to be us.

Janet Fitch

#10. Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.

Wilson Mizner

#11. I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.

Catherynne M Valente

#12. I wanted it, I wanted, I wanted, but the moment it was mine, it ceased to interest me.

David Sedaris

#13. Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

Isaac Asimov

#14. pretty soon, there will be ten billion people coming to dinner. And there is no way they are going to be fed organically.

Joe Schwarcz

#15. I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

John Ruskin

#16. Savings, remember, is the prerequisite of investment.

Campbell R. McConnell

#17. No bird ever looked at a plane in envy

Iain Thomas

#18. I think I am a pretty good sister.

Miley Cyrus