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" A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead. "

" After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was. "

" A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers. "

" A mourning dove's beauty is an understated one: the colors of its feathers ranging through various shades of gray and drab violet, often with a striking splash of turquoise around the eyes. "

" Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job. "

" Feathers predate birds. "

Robert T. Bakker

" Flight without feathers is not easy. "

" Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. "

Emily Dickinson

" Howard Stern gave me the best advice about Twitter and the N word. He said maybe onstage people get the intention behind the joke, but a tweet is 140 characters or less, and maybe that's why people overreact. I don't need to rustle any more feathers and lose any investors. "

Lisa Lampanelli

" I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers. "

" If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back. "

Ellen Swallow Richards

" If you're not ruffling feathers at CPAC, I don't think you're doing a very good job. "

" If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow. "

Rebecca Pidgeon

" I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around. "

Giambattista Valli

" I make body chains that come from the neck, cross in the middle of your chest, then go around your waist. I mix them with feathers for a gypsy, bohemian style. "

" I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line. "

" I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers. "

" In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna. "

Alex Shoumatoff

" In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion. "

" In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster. "

" In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day! "

Angie Dickinson

" I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair. "

Jennifer McMahon

" I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy. "

" Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. "

" It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. "

" It is true I am rather taken up with dress; but as to feathers, every one wears them, and it would seem extraordinary if I did not. "

Marie Antoinette

" I was the understudy to the understudy in a year-two production of 'Big Chief Red Feather.' The boy who had the lead broke his arm, and then the understudy got chicken pox. And I loved it. I got to wear the most feathers in my headdress. "

" Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.' "

" Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. "

" My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it's not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That's rubbed some feathers the wrong way. "

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