I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.
Joely Fisher

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.
Neil Diamond

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.
Michael Douglas

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
Elizabeth Edwards

I've thought about doing it as soon as it is possible with this new CD getting some wings and getting out there. I don't know how soon that will be.
Al Jarreau

If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
Don King

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
Jack Welch

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
Charles Ives

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.
Evel Knievel

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali

It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.
Ricardo Montalban

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.
Edward E. Barnard

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.
Steve Yzerman

John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.
Bradley Whitford

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
Ray Bradbury

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.
Douglas Bader

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
Richard Burton

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe