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- The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
- John Berry, Flight of White Crows
- All people want is someone to listen.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003
- Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
- I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
- When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
- Saskya Pandita
- I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.
- Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912), declining to make a speech in 1908
- Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.
- Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992
- You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
- William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922), Afoot in England, 1909
- I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003
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