#bird

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#birds #either #else #ever #find

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#birds #except #give #joy #make

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#free #i #often #want #work

Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you? ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#birds #child #decide #does #dogs

Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#broadway #bye #i #ice #initially

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#birds #cage #desperate #equally #get

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#always #art #be a man #beauty #beings

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#arriving #because #begin #bird #dragons

Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#been #being #between #birds #came

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#available #awareness #bird #fact #first