Quotes About Short Feathers

#1. A bird needs both long and short feathers to fly," said Jia. "You need to learn to work with different kinds of people." Kuni nodded, glad of Jia's wisdom.

Ken Liu

#2. White angel wings, made up from thousands of short feathers, now surrounded him.

"Uh. Bird?" She pointed dumbly, unable to form a single coherent though more.
"Harpie." He gave her a glare that could have killed.

Constance Sharper

#3. I did this to stay alive. Because you are a vicious, stupid, impotent man. - Shira, to Kadir

Alwyn Hamilton

#4. I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost was that I was chronically overloaded, weary, and short of time for politicking, smoothing ruffled feathers, and simply resting.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#5. I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done.

Harold Prince

#6. I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse ... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.

C.S. Lewis

#7. Thanks to my son, I've learned to laugh at myself. Laughter has been my saving grace.

Patricia Montandon

#8. His short black hair gleamed like a raven's feathers, off-setting his pale skin and blue eyes so deep they were violet, even in the firelight.

Sarah J. Maas

#9. Smile to the future and it will smile back to you

Yoko Ono

#10. Everything about the stranger radiated sensual grace and ease. High Fae, no doubt. His short black hair gleamed like a raven's feathers, offsetting his pale skin and blue eyes so deep they were violet, eevn in the firelight They twinkled with amusent as he beheld me.

Sarah J. Maas

#11. [Razo] knocked, peered inside, then jumped and shut the door, quiet as brushing two feathers together. He smiled at his own stealth, then swaggered right into a chair, banging it against the wall.
You oaf. He cut short his swagger and began to move with exaggerated sneakiness.

Shannon Hale

#12. Now you had one come back, Harley.

Lee Child

#13. We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.

Rahm Emanuel

#14. When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

Rebecca West

#15. Oh, you poor angel. I know I joke, but I think perhaps you are a few feathers short of a wing.

Ashlan Thomas

#16. Like many visitors, they had been unnerved by the inimitable creepiness of the Holy Sepulchre, a grimly gaudy, theopathical Turkish bathhouse where their childhood saints glared like demented spooks from every moldering wall.

Robert Stone

#17. A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

George Washington

#18. The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.

Sarah Jessica Parker