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"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something." »Richard Feynman
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"When morning silvers the dark firmament, Why shrills the bird of dawning his lament? It is to show in dawn?s bright looking-glass How of thy careless life a night is spent." »Omar Khayyam
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"I don't say that the bird is 'good' or the bat is 'bad.' But I will say this At least the bird is less nude." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise." »Ivan Pavlov
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"When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!" »John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song" »John Burroughs
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"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow." »William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
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"Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow." »William Shakespeare
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"Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway." »Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is , don't we all anyway might as well get paid for it." »Elaine Dundy
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"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star." »Confucius
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"The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it." »Casey Stengel
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"There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song (unless the computer is programmed to produce electronic tweets), no connection with soil, water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially." »John Davy
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"We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday'" »Michel MacLiammir
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"For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others." »Eudora Welty
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"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night." »Charles M. Schulz
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"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."" »Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
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"True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky." »Jim Bishop
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"How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this." »Lord Byron
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"How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this." »Lord Byron
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"A night without stars is a night wasted." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night." »John Larroquette
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"The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night." »Jean Baudrillard
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"Christmas night, stars shine bright, and all the angels are singing. 'The Son of God is Born' Little child, holy child, how I want to be near you, this blessed Christmas night." »Garry Gamble
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"I know why the caged bird sings." »Maya Angelou
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"women life is very hard, morning wash cloths, noon dry cloths, evening iron clothes, night remove cloths, late mid night search clothes.." »Yassine Aumerally
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"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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"God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest." »Swedish Proverb
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"I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks and it can't fly very high." »Wilbur Wright
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