Hope Is The Thing With Feathers Quotes

#1. Emily Dickinson's words filled the chapel. " 'Hope is the thing with feathers

Jennifer Bernard

#2. Hope is the thing with feathers

Emily Dickinson

#3. Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

#4. What was it like, being married to six actresses?"
"Like being married to one of them. They're all pretty much alike."
"Why'd you keep doing it, then?"
"Hope is the thing with feathers," Trent said, "that tickles your scrotum at the moments when you most need a clear head.

Timothy Hallinan

#5. When Emily Dickinson writes, "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul," she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.

Terry Tempest Williams

#6. Emily Dickinson once wrote, 'hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,' and she was right, but she forgot to mention that despair is the thing with claws that tears out your heart. Kind of a major oversight there, Em." pg. 25

Suzanne Sullivan

#7. Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.

Chris Robinson

#8. He tells me I look as if I could use a hugand i laugh at him and he ignores me and steps forward and puts his arms around me and hugs me. I warm at the simple pleasure of human contact and for the first time in a long time i actually feel good. (James Frey, pg.38)

James Frey

#9. There are some great divers in Europe and I'm really excited about going to Eindhoven.

Tom Daley

#10. Hope is a thing with feathers...

Emily Dickinson

#11. Hope had been that thing with burnt feathers buried in her soul, but now it was waking up, stretching, beating fresh wings in the ashes.

Shannon Hale

#12. I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.

Yoko Ono

#13. Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.

Shannon Hale

#14. There's always enough to fill up the headlines in a newspaper, the evening news broadcasts. I'm always grateful when I get the weekly news magazines on Monday morning and don't see my picture on the front.

Jimmy Carter

#15. One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.

Ray Lewis

#16. Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.

Cunningham Geikie

#17. How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.

Woody Allen

#18. Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it's definitely a Thing with Claws.

Niall Williams

#19. Llium snorted. "I look like a damned duck." His words weren't far off the mark. The feathers that had grown over the injured section were soft, white, and delicately ... fluffy. "I hope to hell these baby feathers fall off and get replaced by real ones. They will, won't they?" He sounded worried.

Nalini Singh

#20. I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. And I kind of create the walk as a kind of drama of my apprenticeship.

Edward Hirsch

#21. Hope is not the thing with feathers. Hope is an anchor. What keeps you from floating away. Despair is weightless.

Matt Greene

#22. A "seducer" who boasts of initiating women into the mystery of love is like a stranger who arrives at a railroad station and offers to show the sights to a tourist guide.

Karl Kraus