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- Nov 07, 2020
Wings Quotes
Quotes shaped around lift, color, and the sky.
Wings appear here in two moods: a naturalist's close description of a bronze-and-purple bird, and a set of pointed sayings about the gap between decoration and real ability, comparing a pig with wings to a genuine eagle. Together they touch on Freedom as much as on birds.
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- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew what I was getting into: 72-ounce steaks, shakes by the quart, atomic wings. When I landed 'Man v. Food' in 2008, I accepted the fact that my weight would fluctuate. But instead of stressing about the scale, I made my long-term health a primary concern.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.
- Bird
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an 'excuse me'. Typical.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really have a strict diet. I tend to keep the junk food out, but I tend to follow my cravings as well. I love the chips, the hot wings, fries. I tend to eat it all, to be honest.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to a lot of '80s stuff, like 'Owner of a Lonely Heart,' by the group Yes. And Mr. Mister's 'Broken Wings.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gathered
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
- Funny Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
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- Nov 07, 2020