Bird Quotes - Page 46

It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds.

It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.

Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods.

Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.

When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.

Your home is your jail, Bird. I'm going to set you free.

To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions. What value can there be in seeing or experiencing anything for the first time unless it comes as a revelation? And for that to happen, some previously held thought or belief must be confounded, or enhanced, or even transcended. What difference can it make otherwise to see a redwood tree, a tiger, or a humming bird?

If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird.

There are a lot of smart creatures out there. Dolphins, elephants, and whales are smart. And there are some really smart birds. I know some really intelligent fish. But they cannot know what humans know and are incapable of inflicting as much damage.

Throughout all of human history we have consumed the natural world. All creatures do. Birds do. Fish do. Earthworms do. We consume the natural world as a source of our survival. But no creature has ever consumed at the scale that humans have, and now there are seven billion of us. I think the good news is that a large percentage of those seven billion minds can work to make better decisions.

Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do?

This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me.

Jenk shook his head as he headed for the rental car counter. He felt his shoulders tightening as he walked away, certain that Izzy wasn't quite ready to be silent or invisible yet. He was halfway there when Izzy shouted, "Jenkins! I wish I could quit yew!" Of course. The obligatory Brokeback Mountain reference. Jenk flipped Zanella a double bird without bothering to look back.

If you want to do a movie about aliens coming down to Earth nowadays, you need to do it with a smile. When Tim Burton did Mars Attacks, he tried to make it a little bit kitschy, because it's not scary for people anymore. It's not scary that birds will attack you anymore, but I'm sure it was when Alfred Hitchcock made it. And it still is when you watch it.

I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.

I have been in the field working with my birds for 36 years and I don't think a day goes by that I don't see or learn something new.

Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.

Let us not try to understand music with our mind. Let us not even try to feel it with our heart. Let us simply and spontaneously allow the music-bird to fly in our heart-sky. While flying, it will unconditionally reveal to us what it has and what it is. What it has, is Immortality's message. What it is, is Eternity's passage.

What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.

A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.