I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.
Ethel Merman

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.
Oscar Robertson

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
Gordon Lightfoot

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.
Jimmy Piersall

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
James M. Barrie

I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.
Dennis Rodman

I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.
Tiffeny Milbrett

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Nikki Giovanni

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
Douglas Adams

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.
Lawrence Hargrave

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.
Gerry Mulligan

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan Perlis

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.
Jim Henson

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
Anne Baxter