Quotes About A Songbird

#1. You think I'm perfect, but I feel like a songbird trapped in a cage.

Christina L. Barr

#2. She watched Mabel mix bread dough, and it was as if a songbird had landed on a bedroom windowsill.

Eowyn Ivey

#3. "No acute attacks of guilt and self-hatred?"

"Nope. I've taken Mr. Wu's advice: never mind how hard the times are, he always says, carry a green branch in your heart and a songbird will settle on it."

"Wow - where on earth does Mr. Wu get all these hoary old sayings from?"

Kerstin Gier

#4. Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

William Shakespeare

#5. With each word, he broke past every barrier, every wall. And Sharazad's will fought him, screamed a silent scream, while her heart welcomed the intrusion as a songbird welcomes the dawn.

Renee Ahdieh

#6. Gos had steely pinions and a mad marigold eye, and hopped and flew and mantled his great wings over a fist of raw liver. He cheeped like a songbird and was terrified of cars. I liked Gos. Gos was comprehensible, even if the writer was utterly beyond understanding.

Helen Macdonald

#7. I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

Carly Rae Jepsen

#8. Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.

Elizabeth Bowen

#9. lithographic
landscape beyond the forgotten

ocean of the innermost ear

where one boy, with a wolf for a heart, wants
to eat the songbird nesting inside the other

John D. Fry

#10. Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.

Leonid Shamkovich

#11. Tonight, you're mine. In fact, Songbird this is only the beginning. This body, pussy, your voice, all of it belongs to me.

Sienna Mynx

#12. Apparently there's this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it's totally shocked to still be alive - so it sings this really beautiful song.

Gus Van Sant

#13. You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

Elton John

#14. I should hate to be employed and have no time for my needlework and my painting and playing the piano and seeing people. I find I have little enough spare time as it is." "Rubbish, caro, one can find time for important things if one makes an effort." conversation between Georgie and Lucia

Tom Holt

#15. I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

Concha Buika

#16. Only ailments didn't work that way, did they? You couldn't placate them with sacrifices.

Stephen King

#17. It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#18. I think this is where we're trying to get to eventually as a league too hopefully. To have an opportunity to represent and be a leader of a global brand, for me, it was a great decision.

Dwyane Wade

#19. It was almost habit now for me to seek her out whenever I heard her singing - her voice was my only respite. The one moment in the day when I allowed myself to forget the growing pressures of my life. The one moment when I allowed myself to forget who I was.

Danielle L. Jensen

#20. Festivus for the Restivus!

Jerry Seinfeld

#21. I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

Jerry Doyle

#22. I see a global ancient religion which was marked with its rebellious spirit against the higher authorities. It expressed itself temporally (Solar/Lunar), physically (Skulls/Tridents) and linguistically (Sun/Son/Sn) across the whole world.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#23. You looked ridiculous walking around the city carrying an empty wineglass. I don't care to be associated with a drunk. Particularly one who damages glassware.

Danielle L. Jensen

#24. I was walking down the street, and I found a man's hand in my pocket. I asked, "What do you want?" "A match" "Why didn't you ask me?" "I don't talk to strangers."

Henny Youngman

#25. It says a lot about Sandberg's brand of feminism that this campaign focuses on policing language rather than bringing attention to important issues that have real impact on women and girls

Jessica Roy

#26. The portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder and things like that felt really big and important.

Krysten Ritter

#27. The garden was full of sorrow
Songbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhyme
Clouds caused to appear and cast down darkness
For this was the first day the sun didn't shine

John E. Wordslinger

#28. I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

Kenny G