#wings

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#being #cannot #clearest #element #eloquent

The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#charge #compression #crank #external #flows

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#competent #drawings #i #line #most

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them. ↗

— David Hockney

#camera #done #drawings #i #i can

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#about #enough #give #go #goes

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#illusions #soul #supported #them #wings

Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly. ↗

— Jim Hunt

#been #between #both #democratic #democratic party

The man who has no imagination has no wings. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#man #who #wings

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#chrysalis #degrees #eyes #fact #fiction

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#cliffs #down #got #jump #off