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I may have a feather duster down my pants.
When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum's jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a massive Chinese shawl around me from our fancy-dress box. I was obsessed with a feather and rabbit-fur collar from the age of three and attempted to make one with my friend, whose father was a gamekeeper.
When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough, and I must begin again. I have to.
A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be anything. Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa, who knows?
I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.
The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.
The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
When George W. Bush hit the campaign trail in 2000, the precious possession he brought with him from home was his personal feather pillow. The theme of the Bush years was obliviousness. He was famously unavailable for debate and dialogue. He was deaf to countervailing voices. He hit the sack early and always got a good night's sleep.
I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.
If you asked me whose spot do I want, I'd say I want John Cena's spot, so to beat him at WrestleMania would be a feather in my cap, for sure.
In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.
The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness. They care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them.
You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.
Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it.
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.
I love Nike's running shoes and clothes because they feel as light as a feather.