Mouthful Of Feathers Quotes

#1. Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Tom Waits

#2. There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

Emma Goldman

#3. Being on stage was all about the palpable energy of a rapt audience hopefully buying into a life onstage. The immediate connection with the audience was the best part for me. The camera is not as fun, but your work is preserved forever. There's immortality to it.

David Walton

#4. Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while

Anne Lamott

#5. There was this to be said for weddings over battles, at least; it was less likely that someone would cut off your nose.

George R R Martin

#6. Art is the refreshing source of existence.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#7. If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#8. Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

Henry Parry Liddon

#9. What if there was no such thing as a hypothetical question?

Anonymous

#10. We lose keys and we find keys and we get new keys. We just have to find the ones that unlock the right doors. Sometimes, we have keys, but we don't know what door they fit. That can be the hardest part, putting the right key in the right door.

Dan Groat

#11. As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.

Hamish Bowles

#12. Henry was now very annoyed; he had dug himself into a hole so deep that they didn't make a rope long enough.

Andrew Barrett

#13. I don't think I'd enjoy running a public company. We haven't needed to go to the market to fund expansion.

Martin Naughton

#14. I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.

Robert McNamara