Feather Quotes

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen Keller

Hand, Eagle, Skill

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Maya Angelou

Become, Early, Mattress

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
Katharine Hepburn

Why, Head, Slap

I may have a feather duster down my pants.
Johnny Depp

May, Down, Pants

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
Shania Twain

Life, Down, Short

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Wharton

Life, Give, Bed

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Charles Lamb

Off, Laws, Intellect

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.
Michelle Malkin

Together, Bully, Birds

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.
Anne Lamott

Great, Mother, Give

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Allen Ginsberg

Democracy, Hear, Reach

I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.
Dominic Monaghan

Work, Three, Trailer

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
Anne Rice

Endless, Invest

Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.
Graham Norton

Bored, Show, Wear

I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be anything. Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa, who knows?
Geri Halliwell

Tomorrow, Black, Might

The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.
Maggie Stiefvater

Work, End, Book

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.
Amos Oz

Ways, Birds, Regard

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
Dalton Trumbo

Happen, Bedroom, Mattress

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.
Javier Perez de Cuellar

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
Joanna Baillie

Heart, Willing, Heel

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
Samuel Rutherford

Heaven, Bed, Lying

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.
Lucy Alibar

Education, Happiness, Mom

I like things in my hair - big feather pieces.
Kimberly Caldwell

Big, Hair, Pieces

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
Ted Hughes

Whole, Took, Hold

Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.
Mary C. Jones

Fear, Him, Study

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.
John Cleveland

Love, Bed, Break

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