Starlings Quotes:

It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

- Thomas Harris

topic: Benefits, Elbows, Starlings

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: White, Agents, Lambs, White Trash, Starlings

Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets, And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow, Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . . How did it go? How did it go?

- Shel Silverstein

source: Shel Silverstein, “Forgotten Language”

topic: Flower, Fall, Snow, Flakes, Caterpillars

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

topic: Skulls, Anxiety, Panic, Starlings

I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling

- Vladimir Nabokov

source: Vladimir Nabokov (2010). “Lolita”, p.255, Vintage

topic: Mazes, Daze, Said, Starlings

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

- John Webster

source: John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.161, Manchester University Press

topic: Starlings

At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Spring, Men, Air, Starlings

...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

- Christopher Paolini

source: Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.3003, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Kings, Worry, Grew, Starlings

old pear tree starlings announce harvest time

- Phil Noble

topic: Fall, Tree, Harvest, Starlings, Harvest Time

You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV,

- Ingrid Newkirk

source: "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

topic: Dog, Home, Animal, Starlings, Full Life

But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.

- Thomas Harris

topic: Sleep, Silence, Lambs, Starlings, Rosy

So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.

- Shel Silverstein

source: Shel Silverstein, “Somebody Has To”

topic: Stars, Rags, Gulls, Starlings

The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.

- Charles Reznikoff

source: Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.157, David R. Godine Publisher

topic: Tired, Night, Curves, Asphalt, Cold Wind

It occurred to Dr. Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or own her at all. He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him. He wondered if she had the .45 on her leg beneath the gown. Clarice Starling smiled at him then, the cabochons caught the firelight and the monster was lost in self-congratulation at his own exquisite taste and cunning.

- Thomas Harris

topic: Congratulations, Self, Drs, Chrysalis, Starlings

I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

- Thomas Harris

source: Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.22, St. Martin's Press

topic: Grandmother, Swans, Evil, Facade, Typhoid

A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

- Thomas Harris

source: The Silence of the Lambs ch. 3 (1991)

topic: School, Littles, Beans, Best Film, 80s And 90s

He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

- Thomas Harris

topic: Life, Age, Wish, Wishing You Well, Starlings

These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But as Professor Starling said many years ago, 'The physiology of today is the medicine of tomorrow'.

- Philip Showalter Hench

topic: Years, Medicine, Today, Physiology, Investigators

In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Senior, Stars, Real, The Next One, Sicilian

Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt

- John Green

source: John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.256, A&C Black

topic: Black, Racist, Shirts, Starlings

Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account." -Sinead Starling

- Gordon Korman

topic: Care, Global Warming, Bank Accounts, Starlings