Feather Quotes

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

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 am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

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.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

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?

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

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.

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.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

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.