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Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

Quote by Salvador Dali about intelligence, ambition

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Quote by Muhammad Ali about imagination, man

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way...

Quote by Ray Bradbury about affair, friendship, time, love

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as...

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about fall

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

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

Quote by Ray Bradbury

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then?...

Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning about shame, fire, fire brigade, life

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Quote by George Gordon Byron about friendship, love

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about love

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about talent, time

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no...

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about imagination

One who has imagination without learning has wings...

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about imagination

I watched him from the wings. He was at his peak. He was...

I watched him from the wings. He was at his peak. He was handsome and alive and exciting. Elvis must have sung over an hour.

Quote by Minnie Pearl

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

Quote by Frida Kahlo about opinion, need

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just...

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

Quote by Danielle Steel about opinion

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of...

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

Quote by Adelbert von Chamisso about poetry, fasting, use, man

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about life

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by...

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about god

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we...

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

Quote by Jim Morrison about death

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on...

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Quote by Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser about art, soul, magic, human imperfections

Ravens I am feeling words as if they were some ravens with the implanted beak in my heart feeding on night after night with my blood, growing like in a nest, well warmed, protected, reinforcing their wings and then ascending...

Quote by Paul Sarbu about poetry, night, blood, celebrity, stars, heart, life

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