#wings

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. ↗

— William Blake

#high #his #own #soars #too

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#cliff #down #jumping #living #off

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#because #blush #bodily #brow #dead

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#flies #sadness #time #wings

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#bipolar #called #commonly #depression #depressive

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#avail #been #could #off #tear

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. ↗

— Robert Johnson

#been #caught #get #history #individual

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#directing #doing #drawings #key #mind

I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing. ↗

— Kirsten Dunst

#back #get #guardian #i #thing

During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study. ↗

— John Dyer

#drawings #during #i #i do #just