Zitat des Tages über Flügel / Wings:
If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
Even American artists are terrorized by market forces. If one can't see the films, my wings are clipped. I am no longer concerned about this, because I'm focused on making films. Perhaps one day someone who discovers sunken treasures will reexamine my 35 or 36 films - I hope it will be 40 or 50 before I die.
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
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.
Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
The dragonfly is an exceptionally beautiful insect and a fierce carnivore. It has four wings that beat independently. This gives it an ability to maneuver in the air with superb dexterity. A dragonfly can put on a burst of speed, stop on a dime, hover, fly backward, and switch direction in a flash. This is a hunting behavior known as hawking.
Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
Buffalo wings and cider is all I need.
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
I don't think I gave 'Wings' its due. I was young. I wanted to light the world on fire.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
I saw the 'Wizard of Oz' recently and realized that, all my life, I thought they were real monkeys with wings. That's how scary that movie was for me.
Who needs enemies when you've got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
I've been hitting up Hooters since 1983, and I can assure you nothin' says football season is here quite like watching the game on wall-to-wall flat screen TVs with the smell of Hooters world-famous chicken wings in the air and an ice-cold beer in your hand, served up with one-and-only Hooters hospitality, of course.
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.
Drake's home is its own fantasia, a single-level ranch that sprawls in various wings over 7,500 square feet, from the game room to the gym to Drake's master bedroom with Jacuzzi. The pool is like a scene out of Waterworld, with a bar inside a grotto, waterfalls, and a slide that drops thirty feet through the rock.
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?
My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
I've thought about doing it as soon as it is possible with this new CD getting some wings and getting out there. I don't know how soon that will be.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.
