Top 100 Feather Quotes
#1. In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.
Amos Oz
#2. It was nothing compared to his awe as he watched her de-feather the dead fowl like a trained expert,
Marissa Meyer
#3. Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.
William Feather
#4. For in Mexico, ladies and gentlemen, it's always high noon and what glows is fuchsia and what's dead is dead and no feather-dusters.
Henry Miller
#5. He stops kissing, but his lips stay touching mine, lightly, like a feather would. "I'm bad for you, Sarah. I won't ever be the gentleman you need."
"Maybe I don't want gentle."
He pulls something from his dress pants and presses it into my hand. "And that is my fault.
Tara Brown
#6. To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.
Henry Rollins
#7. Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
William Feather
#8. If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
William Feather
#9. Well, you could have knocked me sideways with a feather.
Sally Gardner
#10. O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
William Shakespeare
#11. Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.
Zhuangzi
#12. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. The scales are balanced so nicely that a feather would turn them.
Thomas Hardy
#13. I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy
Charles Dickens
#14. Whether two birds of a feather fly or fall, it'll be together.
Slimkid3
#16. I felt angry and silly in that feather-itch dress. I felt alone. But one always is, I suppose.
Tanith Lee
#17. When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?
William Feather
#18. It was said that the hernia whistled like a lugubrious bird on stormy nights and twisted in unbearable pain when a buzzard feather was burned nearby, but no one complained about those discomforts because a large, well-carried rupture was, more than anything else, a display of masculine honor.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#19. Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.
Mercedes Lackey
#20. History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.
Milan Kundera
#22. Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you."
To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.
Jodi Picoult
#23. A white feather drops at my feet, and I know you're guiding me to where I'm meant to be - Angel Wings
Marie Symeou
#24. It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.
William Feather
#25. Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!
Allen Ginsberg
#26. Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. Curly
Maya Angelou
#27. Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
William Feather
#28. I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.
Lawrence Durrell
#30. Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
William Feather
#31. In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.
William Feather
#32. The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.
Thomas Reid
#33. What a fine-looking thing is war!
Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,
what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!
Douglas William Jerrold
#34. "You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You really have to learn.
Sandra Cisneros
#35. An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.
William Feather
#36. That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working now inside him unsatisfied, making him long for a more intimate link, a relationship which would bind him to each leaf and twig and feather and flutter.
Italo Calvino
#37. The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.
William Feather
#38. No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it - no place to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather.
George MacDonald
#39. For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.
David Salle
#40. Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.
William Feather
#41. Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
Elbert Hubbard
#42. People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather.
Pauline Quirke
#43. Eyes watching always
Shadows in shadows they wait
A black feather falls
First accepted, loved
Then betrayed-spit in the face
Vengeance sweet like dots.
Kristin Cast
#44. Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.
William Feather
#45. Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try ... what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested.
'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.
Ally Carter
#46. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
John Keats
#47. Your scars are beautiful. It means you survived. It means you're here with me." He kissed my wrist, light as a feather - and changed everything about us. "It's my favorite part of you,
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#48. When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough, and I must begin again. I have to.
Sarah Brightman
#49. It's snowing some today and Marilla says the old woman in the sky is shaking her feather beds. Is the old woman in the sky God's wife, Anne? I want to know. Mrs.
L.M. Montgomery
#50. Winning the world championship in '66 was really the pinnacle of the whole thing, because to win a championship with an Australian made engine was a fantastic feather in our cap ...
Jack Brabham
#51. She drifted, feather-like, in tenuous radiance ...
Her gown, it seemed a thing made out of mist,
As though the dewy air
Had gathered in a cloud about her form
To clothe a shape so fair
That nothing coarser could adorn it than
A layer of atmosphere.
Theodora Goss
#52. If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
William Feather
#53. a hymn then
not to birds but to words
which themselves feel
like feather and wing
and light, as if it were
on the delicacy of
such sweet syllables
that flocks take flight.
Kei Miller
#54. Dear Lord...patch this work. Quilt us together, feather-stitching piece by piece our tag-ends of living, our individual scraps of love
Jane Wilson Joyce
#55. Death is light as a feather; duty, heavy as a mountain
Robert Jordan
#56. And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn't know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.
Frank Cottrell Boyce
#57. The firebird drops a feather, was his summary, and if you're fool enough to pick it up and chase the bird itself, you're in for trouble.
Susanna Kearsley
#58. Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind
Munia Khan
#59. Love-real love- sees with the heart, master. Not with the eyes."
The Beast looked at him skeptically. "How do you know that?"
"Because I'm in love with a woman who's a feather duster," said Lumiere. "That's how.
Jennifer Donnelly
#60. Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies,
Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies:
The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays,
On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays;
Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume,
Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume.
Phillis Wheatley
#61. Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
William Feather
#62. It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb.
Conrad Aiken
#63. The primary asset of any business is its organization.
William Feather
#64. If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.
William Feather
#65. A FEATHER.
A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
Gertrude Stein
#66. To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
William Feather
#67. Whatever happens, we've got your back, girlfriend! Unless, of course, the crowd gets mad and decides to tar and feather us. Then, I'll be leaving you in the dust!
Rachel Renee Russell
#68. Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
William Feather
#69. My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.
T. S. Eliot
#70. I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.
Dominic Monaghan
#71. That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
William Feather
#72. We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
William Feather
#73. You think I should use magick like mine to open a tomb?" Mari asked in a scoffing tone. Mistress of bluffing, working it here. "That'd be like calling you in to lift a feather.
Kresley Cole
#74. I don't love you. But I see the value of you, the incredible worth of you, more than anyone I've ever known.
Cate Tiernan
#75. What is in the heart rolls off the tongue, the weight of your words can be as sharp as a sword or as light as a feather." 03/19/2016
Suzanne Pavlick
#76. All around the recognized word and the comprehended sentence, the other graphisms take flight, carrying with them the visible plenitude of shape and leaving only the linear, successive unfurling of meaning
not one drop of rain falling after another, much less a feather or a torn-of leaf.
Michel Foucault
#78. How can you know love, and lose it, and go on living without it, and not feel the loss forever?"
"You can't," Feather answered. "You feel the loss forever. But you put it in a corner of yourself, and bit by bit some of your sorrow changes into joy. And that's how you go on living.
Sonya Hartnett
#79. Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.
Thornton Wilder
#80. And the love I felt for him was weightless, like a feather, like a beam of light, like falling forever and never touching the ground.
Laurelin Paige
#81. In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know and it's knowing how to use the information you get.
William Feather
#82. To feel myself. Light as a feather free as a bird, though long since fit to be shot down. Unleash the dog with no sense of shame. Become this or that. Awaken the dead. Wear my pal Baldander's rags for a change. Lose my way on a single-minded quest.
Gunter Grass
#83. It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
Ted Hughes
#84. I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.
Oliver Cromwell
#85. When thoughts come up, touch them very lightly, like a feather touching a bubble. Let the whole thing be soft and gentle, but at the same time precise.
Pema Chodron
#86. Then there is the excitement as a fish takes this daintiest of offerings, this sleight-of-hand made of fur and feather. Each sparkling fish you release is a bond to wildness.
Kevin C. Kelleher
#87. Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
Anne Rice
#88. We fear to trust our wings. We plume and feather them, but dare not throw our weight upon them. We cling too often to the perch.
Charles Newcomb Baxter
#90. A weapon, I told Horus. I need a weapon. I reached into the Duat and pulled out an ostrich feather. "Really?" I yelled. Horus didn't answer
Rick Riordan
#91. A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Charles Lamb
#93. Jolly boating weather,
And a hay harvest breeze,
Blade on the feather,
Shade off the trees.
William Johnson Cory
#94. This? It's a feather-coin. I made it.'
'What is it for?'
'It isn't for anything. It's a toy.'
'It's for annoying people,' said Mogget from Sam's pack. 'If you don't put it away, I shall eat it.
Garth Nix
#95. I watched as he raised his hand to run a finger down my nose to my lips, then traced my mouth.
The feather-light touch made me shiver. "What are you doing?"
"I'm drawing you, so that I'll have you in my fingertips while you are gone.
Frances Watts
#96. Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
William Feather
#97. Their nasty whispering made me angry. They had a neat way of tucking their point inside something softseeming and neighborly. The cutting edge was hidden in a joke or a piece of advice. It was like being sliced by a tiny blade hidden in a goose feather; it took a moment to realize the wound.
Ananda Braxton-Smith
#98. We all know that the nation can't divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that's how we get ahead.
William Feather
#100. 7. Dress appropriately for your work environment.
We get it; you want everyone to know how creative and interesting you are. Well, let your personality do that for you rather than your crop top and feather shoes.
Grace Helbig
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