Bird Quotes
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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
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Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
Chogyam Trungpa
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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
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I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
Ingmar Bergman
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Not an angel of the air,
Bird melodious or bird fair,
Be absent hence!
William Shakespeare
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
Victor Hugo
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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
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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
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I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'
Caroll Spinney
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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
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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
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My heart is like a singing bird.
Christina Rossetti
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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
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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
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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
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Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.
Octavio Paz
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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
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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
