Top 100 Feather Quotes
#1. The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
Dalton Trumbo
#2. I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!
Charles Dickens
#3. Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
Katharine Hepburn
#5. It amazes me, how quickly one discovers the truth, hidden deep within the mysteries of life; the secret, to enlightened vision, is but just a veil, one needs only to touch, and feather.
Alejandro C. Estrada
#6. Gertrude, behind her, again had just one ... That one little feather she had as a starter. But now that's enough, because now she is smarter.
Dr. Seuss
#8. A plumped feather bed may have looked divine, but occupants quickly found themselves sinking into a hard, airless fissure between billowy hills. Support was on a lattice of ropes, which could be tightened with a key when they began to sag (hence the expression "sleep tight").
Bill Bryson
#9. Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful body and theirs all one.
Mark Van Doren
#10. To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#12. To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.
Huey Newton
#13. Butch: -I hear ya. No one's biz but yours. One question though
Vishous: -What
Butch: -When the females tie you down, do they paint your toe-nails and shit? Or just do your makeup? Wait ... they tickle your pits with feather, right?
J.R. Ward
#14. He tucked my hair behind my ear, his fingertips brushing feather light across my temple, his thumb at the line of my jaw. I have my own team.
Janet Evanovich
#15. Zebra print leggings. A black leather jacket. Boots as big as your head, a pink feather boa, blue jeans, Hanes T-shirts in white and black -
J.R. Ward
#16. Death is as light as a feather, duty heavier than a spire.
Jim Butcher
#17. Wings - -vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.
Laini Taylor
#18. Ancient Egypt was okay. Drinks menu was limited. Not the best place to meet people. Reminded me a lot of the Internet in the sense that it was full of pictures of cats and people seemed pretty excited about them. Also lots of fun emoji. Still not sure what "Feather Squiggly Line Bird" means.
Alexandra Petri
#19. OK. ... A blue feather." He looked at me blankly. "Richard? A blue feather?
Richard Bach
#20. May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.
Edward Ramsay
#21. I weigh more than a mountain but less than a feather.
Patrick Ness
#22. The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#24. I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers, and you know the feather dancers would come, and they'd say, "What are you, a poet? You're next".
Sandra Cisneros
#26. No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.
Walter Scott
#27. And you thought that rock was just ugly," Shame said. "It's ugly and powerful."
"No wonder you like it so much. Birds of a feather ... " Terric mumbled
Devon Monk
#28. Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.
John Gay
#29. I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#30. If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#31. She felt him bow his head to rest his jaw on her hair, the touch feather light. Tears beaded in her lashes
C.L. Wilson
#32. This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.
William Shakespeare
#33. Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.
John Cleveland
#34. Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.
Jean Hersey
#35. Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.
Mary C. Jones
#37. Besides, even if you went all the way, what would you be? Feather-weight champion of the world. Who gives a shit? I doubt you can even get a credit card based on that.
Marsellus Wallace
Quentin Tarantino
#38. So I build my own nest and feather it with thoughts of you.
Ruta Sepetys
#39. Like a feather in the air,Like a leaf in the sea,I surrender to thee,I surrender to thee.-RVM
R.v.m.
#40. It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.
Agatha Christie
#41. Some have brains, so they get a book! Others are feather-brained, so they get a broom!
Andrzej Sapkowski
#42. Life isn't but a feather floating in the wind. One second it's in your grasp, next second, it's floating high, wondering what is to come.
William Shakespeare
#43. The power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.
Bob Marley
#44. I shall not weep for any of them, nor regret their fate, nor shake one feather in sympathy.
Chris Adrian
#45. I looked closely at it for the first time; the charm was just a slim line of silver - half of it hammered into the shape of a feather, the other half a dagger. It was interesting and beautiful; just like him.
Michelle Hodkin
#46. Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.
Stephen King
#47. I think about how much of a good story seems to happen elsewhere, off the canvas or screen or page, in Europe or a backwater New Brunswick town, in what is left unsaid. A word on the tip of the tongue, ungraspable. The teasing smush of a feather boa over naked breasts in a striptease.
Lisa Moore
#48. I was the understudy to the understudy in a year-two production of 'Big Chief Red Feather.' The boy who had the lead broke his arm, and then the understudy got chicken pox. And I loved it. I got to wear the most feathers in my headdress.
Sarah Snook
#49. I once heard a grouty northern invalid say that a coconut tree might be poetical, possibly it was; but it looked like a feather-duster struck by lightning.
Mark Twain
#50. Flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is
Birds of a feather flock together.
Lewis Carroll
#51. A heartbreak isn't as loud as a bomb exploding. Sometimes it can be as quiet as a feather falling and the most painful thing is no one really hears except you.
Anonymous
#52. I looked to the window. Patch was gone, but a single black feather was pressed to the outer pane, held in place by last night's rain. Or angel magic.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#53. The feather was a thing, when I was a kid, we used to find feathers around the house, and whenever we found them, my mum used to say it was my nan leaving them around for us to find, so that was quite sweet.
Liam Payne
#54. Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Wharton
#55. If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity
Lois Duncan
#56. Indifference was the best remedy. Once you conceded defeat, life was a feather bed.
Clive Barker
#57. I am capable of directing, and I am good at that. In order to have longevity as actors, you have to keep changing it up a bit; you have to bring other talents to the table. I want this to be another feather in my cap instead of replacing what I already have.
Kirsten Nelson
#58. That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
Edmund Waller
#59. Her fingertips reached to trace the damage, but he grasped her hand with his own. He leaned down, far enough that the dark ends of his hair brushed feather-light against her face, caught in her lashes.
Kelly Creagh
#60. Mint-street and Kent-street--those old plague-spots that disgrace and disfigure the fair face of the Borough of Southwark--teem with blackguardism and vice; but here, too, you find that the birds who here flock are strictly of a feather. Cow-cross,
Henry Mayhew
#61. You hold one feather tightly in your hand, close your eyes and concentrate. The location of the other feather will appear in your mind and the magic will take you there.
Louise Courey Nadeau
#62. It's better to be the rooster than the feather duster.
Jimmy Spithill
#63. You must have brought the bad weather with you
The sky's the color of lead
All you've left me is a feather
On an unmade bed
Tom Waits
#65. Each morning, when you awaken, promise the dawn that you'll keep your heart as light as a feather. Commit again each night at sunset.
Joann Davis
#66. The screams were heard in every corner of all the Realms. Each feather that was ripped out was a heartrending cry. The archangel wept in silence while, with his flaming hand, he tore the wings from his brother.
Jorge Silva Rodighiero
#67. Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Maya Angelou
#68. Put off this sloth,' the master said, 'for shame!
Sitting on feather-pillows, lying reclined
Beneath the blanket is no way to fame -
Fame, without which man's life wastes out of mind,
Leaving on earth no more memorial
Than foam in water or smoke upon the wind
Dante Alighieri
#71. Then they'd [Nazi] make movies against England, you know, in the same way, to help, you know, feather their nest for what they - their aggressions.
Quentin Tarantino
#72. And he stood so closely behind her that she felt his breath feather her neck. Blanche leaped away, putting a polite distance between them, her heart suddenly thundering in her chest. His body hadn't touched hers, but it might as well have, for she had felt his heat.
Brenda Joyce
#73. If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.
Rebecca Pidgeon
#74. The taste of good coffee, so deep and complex that it was almost a crime to describe it by a single name. The sound of rain falling on the pavement, the smell of petrichor and moistened loam. The color of a single raven's feather in the sunlight, rainbows caught in ebony - ==========
Anonymous
#75. The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.
Will Cuppy
#76. A loose feather can't be put back...but a broken wing can sometimes heal.
Bob Graham
#77. Imagine the ton would leap from London Bridge if the marquess did it first. Mind you, he'd land on a cart carrying a feather mattress when he did it, whilst the rest of London would splatter.
Julie Anne Long
#78. Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
Virginia Woolf
#79. The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.
Michael Drayton
#80. When we are able to let go of the worry, let it float away like a feather in the wind, we free ourselves of further burden and open the door to all that is right for us.
Charles F. Glassman
#81. I ain't never loan friends money; I give it to 'em and I don't expect to get it back. Even when he says, "I'll pay you back," I never expect it. If he gives it back, then hey, that's a feather in his cap, but I don't expect to get it back.
Mike Tyson
#82. She was enveloped from head to foot in a raccoon fur coat, with a jaunty hat of the same, trimmed only with a bright quill feather.
Carolyn Wells
#83. He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all
Richard Bach
#84. The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#85. Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Allen Ginsberg
#86. Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
John Ray
#87. The sky was a feather blanket of clouds, save for one blue hole in the fabric. A blue cloud in a white sky.
Marie Rutkoski
#88. The day I had turned twelve, I had asked him for a kiss. Not any kiss, Crisanto Tauli's kisses. Those were addictive. Butterfly-like, feather-light kisses. Fire-burning, all-consuming kisses. Middle kisses. All the kisses.
Tammy Faith
#89. Her name is Feather. Feather is apparently very famous for choreographing several hit Broadway shows. She also must be pretty hard up for cash if she'd agree to choreograph a snoozer like Braid! But whatever.
Meg Cabot
#90. I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be anything. Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa, who knows?
Geri Halliwell
#91. I love Nike's running shoes and clothes because they feel as light as a feather.
Katia Winter
#92. And I feel it happen
silent and study as a feather, a piece of my soul becomes his.
Kristen Simmons
#93. My problems are as light as a feather because god carries them for me
Skylar Laine
#94. Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#95. I may have a feather duster down my pants.
Johnny Depp
#96. Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.
Robert Jordan
#97. Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.
Anthony Liccione
#98. For example, it takes the entire planet Earth to attract a feather to the floor, but we can counteract Earth's gravity by lifting the feather with a finger. The action of our finger can counteract the gravity of an entire planet that weighs over six trillion trillion kilograms.
Michio Kaku
#99. Levi had him flat on his back with a hand around his neck, his face right over Will's. If you finish or act on that threat I will politely remind you that there's more to me than a feather boa and eyeliner. You got me, Slayer?
Mercy Celeste
#100. Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.
Oliver Cromwell
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