Quotes with wings

Quotes 61 till 64 of 64.

• What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'

  Barry Humphries
  Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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• Who put up that cage? Who hung it up with bars, doors? Why do those on the inside want to get out? Why do those outside want to get in? What is this crying inside and out all the time? What is this endless, useless beating of baffled wings at these bars, doors, this cage?

  Carl Sandburg
  American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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• You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury
  American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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• A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

  Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• extraordinary
• completely
• something
• extremely
• thought
• endless

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