#wings

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#conversation #must #opposition #shall #shoulder

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#claws #death #gives #had #makes

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#drawings #illustration #make #perfected #thousands

When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#did #first #i #me #out

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#began #generation #i #kids #love

It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#along #bondage #came #chew #freedom

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#follow #hard #hidden #him #his

Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings. ↗

— Frances Goodrich

#bell #every #every time #got #hear

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ↗

— Horace Greeley

#character #endures #fame #one thing #only