Carrie Vaughn Quotes

"Fish gotta swim, bird gotta fly, werewolf gotta have a pack?” I said wryly.

Carrie Vaughn

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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
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Bird

• If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Vote
  • Fishing
  • Fish

• I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Sweet
  • Bird

• Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • You
  • Will
  • Pool

• My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Song
  • Shoes
  • Fish

• Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Fish

• 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
  • Small
  • Sorry
  • Bird

• 80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • People
  • Source
  • Fish

• As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Find
  • Fish
  • Later

• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
  • Dream
  • Bird

• I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Like
  • Idea
  • Bird

• I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

  

  Olivier Messiaen
  • Military
  • Bird
  • Colors

• What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Rest
  • Courage
  • Pack

• The girl's mouth was chapped, tight and pinched, her skin dry. Mama would say she looked woebegone, but as Bird looked at her eyes, the word she thought of was desperate.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • She
  • Girl
  • Eyes

• It is absolutely vital to hold it as lightly as possible - rather as one might pick up a newborn bird.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Up
  • Bird

• And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Dark
  • Vision

• Say, what is the spell, when her fledgelings are cheeping, That lures the bird home to her nest? Or wakes the tired mother, whose infant is weeping, To cuddle and croon it to rest?

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Rest

• When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Country
  • Why
  • Understanding

• This album is moments that I haven't done before, like just my voice and drums. What people call a rant - but put it next to just a drumbeat, and it cuts to the level of, like, Run-D.M.C. or KRS-One.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Done
  • Running

• I wanna be a chapter in your book of love.

  

  Felix Jaehn
  • Book
  • Chapter
  • Wanna

• When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Old
  • Big
  • Confident

• We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, 'What are we fighting against?'

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • People
  • American
  • Fighting

• I knew I wanted to act since I was 10, but I didn't actually start acting until I was in high school. My favorite play was 'Lilies of the Field.'

  

  Dennis Haysbert
  • School
  • High

• "Fish gotta swim, bird gotta fly, werewolf gotta have a pack?” I said wryly.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Bird
  • Fish
  • Pack