Painted Bird Quotes

#1. Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?"
- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

Jerzy Kosinski

#2. A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that.

Jeff Noon

#3. I love the essay. It's my favorite genre to work in.

Meghan Daum

#4. I miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.

Maureen Johnson

#5. Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application,

Thomas A. Edison

#6. Unfortunately, evil will never be wholly defeated.Mankind is faced with a continual struggle against evil. We believe that this is where the meaning of our lives and of human history lies.

Alija Izetbegovic

#7. Open skies painted above painted doorways and painted birds skimming across bricks trying to fly away. Little bird, what are you thinking? You come from a can.

Cath Crowley

#8. Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.

Jeff Merkley

#9. Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.

J.K. Rowling

#10. In excess altercation, truth is lost.

Publilius Syrus

#11. Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Bertolt Brecht

#12. Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.

Paul Yingling

#13. Playing an instrument is its own reward.
Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment.

Peter James West

#14. A king-size bed sat catty-corner opposite me. The bedroom was painted white, but the comforter was crimson. Small black velvet bird appliques swarmed in the center. I'm not much for art. I'll confess the deeper meaning of the twisted comforter was lost on me. Maybe death to all swallows?

Hailey Edwards

#15. What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman