| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow." »William Shakespeare |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star." »Confucius |
| "For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others." »Eudora Welty |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "I know why the caged bird sings." »Maya Angelou |
| "women life is very hard, morning wash cloths, noon dry cloths, evening iron clothes, night remove cloths, late mid night search clothes.." »Yassine Aumerally |
| "Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
| "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "Charlie And I'd really like to kiss you, but that's not a good idea, because then we'd start kissing on the couch, and then we'd start kissing on the bed, and I don't wanna rush into spending the night together. Harriet I'd love to spend the night together. Charlie I have no problem with that" »So I Married an Axe Murderer |
| "A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." »Chinese Proverb |
| "The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." »John Berry |
| "God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest." »J. G. Holland |
| "The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." »Unknown |
| "I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks and it can't fly very high." »Wilbur Wright |
| "If I could be a bird, I think I'd be a penguin, because then I could walk around on two feet with a lot of other guys like me." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." »William Blake |
| "Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark." »Rabindranath Tagore |
| "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance." »e e cummings |
| "People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
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