Yellow Bird Quotes

#1. A beautiful girl is much superior to a little yellow bird, and a boy - such as I was - far better than a Green Monkey.

L. Frank Baum

#2. I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what's on the wall. I look at this painting and think about how everyone has some secret inside, something sleeping like that yellow bird.

Cath Crowley

#3. The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.

Truman Capote

#4. She carefully lets go of his hand in the darkness, but her voice still rests in his ear.

Fredrik Backman

#5. I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War vets. Klay's stories are remarkable.

George Packer

#6. A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.

Isaac Babel

#7. What's the good of being alive if you don't do anything?

Kirsten Hubbard

#8. The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes coulp coulp coulp.

Will Cuppy

#9. Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine.

Cory Booker

#10. He has a great smile, a cat's smile. He should cough out yellow Tweety Bird feathers, the way he smiles at me.

Gillian Flynn

#11. He was a bloody genius with these people, slicker than any confidence artist, more popular than whisky in a room full of Irishmen.

Meredith Duran

#12. The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

Ovid

#13. Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.

Isabella Bird

#14. A field of scarlet with nine hanged men in black and six yellow daggers in the upper left and lower right quadrants, respectively, while the upper right quandrant featured a shattered skull and the lower left boasted a bird astride a severed head. It might have been a raven. Or an eagle.

Glen Cook

#15. I felt comfortable as only one can on such a night, when all is miserable outside and all is warmth and comfort inside.

Stephen King

#16. As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

Larry Bird

#17. Look, Sara. The way Andrew treated you was unconscionable. We all saw that, and I regret not speaking up on your behalf. But you have the choice to decide how you grow from it. If you're going to think every man is like him, you don't deserve Max. Max isn't that guy.

Christina Lauren

#18. We die, he said.
We die, I said. And kn owing this how do we live?
Knowing this, we live.
We live.

Alan Spence