Birdlike Quotes

#1. This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.

Elizabeth Bowen

#2. Guess what?' I said. 'I have a psychic.'
His head tilted questioningly, birdlike.
A sidekick?

Wally Lamb

#3. There was something fascinating about tall thin men, the way their bones and Adam's apple lurked so unconcealed beneath the skin, their birdlike faces, their predatory stoop.

Ian McEwan

#4. True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

Honore De Balzac

#5. I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he touches me like he can't bear to take his hand away, I don't wish I was any different.

Veronica Roth

#6. When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

Cesar Chavez

#7. I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work.

Michael Sheen

#8. I pretended to be done with love again, although deep down, I craved it. Craved intimacy with anyone, really.

Cindi Madsen

#9. I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?

Carson McCullers

#10. Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

Wilhelm Steinitz

#11. It isn't drugs addicts have to give up. It's misery.

Marty Rubin

#12. I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.

Sharon Stone

#13. Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one's emotions' attempt to contaminate one's opinions.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. I had worked in politics with Johnson and Nixon before becoming a historian and biographer. I kept discovering these dirtier, murkier threads in American politics that led back to Vegas' gambling interests and criminal connections.

Roger Morris

#15. She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.

John Green

#16. You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad
if you're indifferent, Endsville.

Frank Sinatra

#17. The one who is happy can never get too early out of bed.

Camilla Collett