#wings

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#blow #destiny #i #night #strange

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#danger #desperate #fear #had #how

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#being #between #clear #considering #deficiency

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#few #great #men #never #occupies

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron? ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#chains #fast #iron #man #use

Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like. ↗

— Christo

#arrive #because #believe #drawings #hard

They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible. ↗

— John Doerr

#drawings #expressions #family #found #gain

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different. ↗

— Michael Douglas

#always #different #i #kind #stretch

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me. ↗

— John Dryden

#bore #eagle #fool #i #me

All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore. ↗

— Isla Fisher

#cool #fairy #get #get married #i