William Wharton Quotes

Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

William Wharton

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• Movement
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• We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Movement
  • Potential

• The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Women
  • Movement
  • Vacation

• They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Mind
  • She
  • Together

• To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Literature
  • Movement
  • Fantasy

• I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Woman
  • Body
  • Dead

• Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Like
  • Dead
  • Seem

• Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Men
  • May
  • Dead

• Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Romantic
  • Dead
  • Disney

• 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 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

• If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
  • Dream
  • Sleep

• 'The bird that would soar above the plane of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.'

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Earth
  • Strong
  • Sad

• Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Time
  • Door
  • Bird

• 'Flappy Bird' was one of those phenomena. If we could all build one now, we would. Probably a bunch of us are trying. Those kinds of games are interesting. Rumor has it he was making $50,000 a day just from advertising, which is great, especially given the cost of living in Vietnam.

  

  Chris DeWolfe
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Interesting

• A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

  

  Bret Harte
  • May
  • Hand
  • Bird

• 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
  • Good
  • Job
  • Walking

• Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Great
  • Long
  • Mind

• Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?

  

  David Attenborough
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Bird

• Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpet our nation's capital, Lady Bird Johnson will be remembered. Only Lady Bird Johnson could, with her vision of a beautiful America, lay claim to spring as her memorial.

  

  David Mixner
  • Country
  • America
  • Beautiful

• Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Government
  • Abuse
  • Taxation

• I think I'm able to reach a lot of folks, despite the fact that the conventional news media sometimes says, "You know, this speech is too long," or "It's too complicated," or "He needs to have better sound bites," or what have you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long

• A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.

  

  Henry Flynt
  • Mind
  • Directions
  • Skulls

• Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

  

  William Wharton
  • Bird
  • Dead
  • Movement