Bird Quotes

• I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Bird

• I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got there, we discovered they wanted both characters on at the same time. Stephen Colbert didn't know one man plays them both. We called Joey Mazzarino, our head writer, who's a very good puppeteer as well. He agreed to zip over and do Oscar.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bird

• The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Bird
  • Wings

• 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
  • World
  • Mother
  • April

• I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Bird

• People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • People
  • Business
  • Marketing

• I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Friend
  • Bird

• 'They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • Bird
  • Flying

• If some people think, "Why am I eating a dead bird soaked in poop?" I think if some people get disgusted by that, it's all to the good. Their coronary arteries will be healthier.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Men
  • Boys
  • Whiskey

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

  

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

• These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Game

• When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they walked. The insects ticked softly, their strength in reserve; butterflies chopped the air, going to the east, and the birds flew carelessly and sang by fits and starts, not the way they did in the evening in sustained and drowsy songs.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Music
  • Song
  • Morning

• Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Children
  • Character
  • Bird

• Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie,A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.Ask me a riddle and I reply,Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Fly
  • Bird

• Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Like
  • Poetry
  • Bird

• 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
  • House
  • Free
  • Bird

• Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Women
  • Color
  • Inspired

• The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Question
  • Winter
  • Owl

• My heart is like a singing bird.

  

  Christina Rossetti
  • Heart
  • Singing
  • Bird

• The early bird catches the worm.

  

  William Camden
  • Wisdom
  • Bird
  • Worms

• A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world. Alone in this fun house, only I grow old, a pale softball of death swelling inside me. Yet even as I sleep somewhere between Saturn and Uranus, wind-up birds everywhere are busy at work fulfilling their appointed rounds.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Death
  • Alone
  • Sleep

• I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

  

  Dennis Rodman
  • Great
  • Game
  • Player

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