Wings famous quotes
05-25-2025
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Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing
-- Aaron Sorkin -
It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?
-- Abbas ibn Firnas -
But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.
-- Abdellatif Laabi -
We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
-- Aberjhani -
September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
-- Aberjhani -
The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
-- Abraham Flexner -
There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.
-- Adam Pally -
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
-- Adelbert von Chamisso -
What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.
-- Adelbert von Chamisso -
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
-- Aeschylus -
Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
-- Aga Khan III -
I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.
-- Al Franken -
View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.
-- Alan Cohen -
What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.
-- Alan Licht -
Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.
-- Alan Shearer -
A beautiful blossom is a fleeting thing It stays for a moment and then takes wing: With special rays we catch it ere flight So all may enjoy the beautiful sight.
-- Albert Richards -
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Whoever invented the word 'grace' must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.
-- Aldo Leopold -
I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings
-- Alejandra Pizarnik -
Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
-- Alexander Pope -
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
-- Alexander Pope -
And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
-- Alexander Pope -
So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.
-- Alexandre Dumas-fils -
There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings
-- Alfred de Musset -
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
-- Alfred de Vigny -
Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in ‘Les Miserables’ and ‘The Sound of Music,’ and my mum’s an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn’t find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.
-- Alicia Vikander -
I only saw fire and chandeliers and smoke. No people. Not the room. Not even a time frame. Do you know how many chandeliers there are in the south wing alone? What was I supposed to do? Tell everyone to avoid chandeliers forever?
-- Amanda Hocking -
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
-- Ambrose -
A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.
-- Amit Ray -
For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.
-- Amy Davidson -
Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.
-- Amy Lowell -
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
-- Anais Nin -
Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.
-- Anatoli Boukreev -
We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.
-- Andrea Corr -
she's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing
-- Andrea Gibson -
Some people just wait for someone to take them under their wings but they should just find someones wings to grab onto.
-- Andrea Jung -
Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction!
-- Andy Biersack -
His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. "I could've made you happy, dove." "You did," I whispered
-- Ann Aguirre -
No, not under the vault of another sky, not under the shelter of other wings. I was with my people then, there where my people were doomed to be.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
-- Anna Louise Strong -
That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.
-- Annabel Pitcher -
My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.
-- Anne Bronte -
Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
-- Anne Lamott -
Truth, that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.
-- Anne Monroe -
And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.
-- Anne Rice -
Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.
-- Anne-Marie Duff -
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
-- Annie Dillard -
To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.
-- Annie Fellows Johnston -
You never have enough competition at any position, ... Several of the players listed at right wing have played center in the NHL, like Trevor Linden. Some can play both wings. I've been skating on a line with the Sedin twins. They are a lot more skilled than some people give them credit. Look at their point totals and they are right up there in their point-per-minute averages. My job will be to complement them and try to get our line to provide secondary scoring behind the big line of Naslund, Bertuzzi and Morrison. Those guys look good and I expect they'll be the top line in the NHL again.
-- Anson Carter -
Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.
-- Anthony Anderson -
Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.
-- Anthony Holden -
Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.
-- Antoine-Marin Lemierre -
Even when the bird walks we see that it has wings.
-- Antoine-Marin Lemierre -
Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.
-- Antonin Sertillanges -
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.
-- Anzia Yezierska -
Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.
-- Aprilynne Pike -
I can't even dial one phone number right away. But you strained your own body to go and see them. I was surprised. The frightened little me had always wondered how to swim through the vast ocean, but you didn't even want a ship. You wanted wings. I thought you were amazing.
-- Arina Tanemura -
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
-- Aristophanes -
If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate.
-- Arlen Specter -
If God wanted us high, He would have given us wings.
-- Arsenio Hall -
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.
-- Arthur M. Wellington -
I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things.
-- Arthur Symons -
Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves--along with the renewed courage to try them out.
-- Audre Lorde -
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
-- Augustus Hare -
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
-- Barbara Amiel -
...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
There is an irony that the most active anti-gay [groups] are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
-- Barney Frank -
The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying, as if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon.
-- Barry S. Strauss -
The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.
-- Bela Karolyi -
Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.The wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.
-- Bill Keller -
I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it's no longer an eagle and it's going to crash.
-- Bill Moyers -
Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?
-- Billy Connolly -
I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.
-- Birch Bayh -
Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.
-- Bjorn Lomborg -
My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.
-- Bob Dylan -
The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.
-- Bob Mould -
Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel's wing.
-- Bob Ross -
Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.
-- Bobby Seale -
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
-- Boris Pasternak -
Now there is something about [Tuukka] you probably don’t know and that is he loves chicken wings more than any person I’ve ever met in my life. If he could eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner he would.
-- Brad Marchand -
There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but know that the crux of your happiness balances delicately on the wings of the act of creativity itself. Not at the finish line.
-- Brandon Boyd
