Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes
It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.
Rachel Keller -
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
Karl A. Menninger -
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
Felix Frankfurter -
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D. H. Lawrence -
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
Abraham Robinson -
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.
Zack Snyder -
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Walter Benjamin -
I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
Frances Wright -
I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.
Barbara Windsor -
His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen
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A bird makes the same use of wings and tail in the air as a swimmer does of his arms and legs in the water.
Leonardo da Vinci -
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
Bret Harte -
I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!
Bettie Page -
When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.
Jacques Pepin -
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 see no reason to quit. I can't imagine walking away from being Big Bird. I mean, that's an awfully good job that there's not too many of them. So I just want to keep doing it till I can't do it anymore.
Caroll Spinney
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The 2nd of April (1891) at 9:45 a.m. Max Ernst had his first contact with the sensible world, when he came out of the egg which his mother had laid in an eagle's nest and which the bird had brooded for seven years.
Max Ernst -
Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.
Seth Godin -
The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.
C.P. Snow -
Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee