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Look at us. A line of symmetry. Two halves of a whole. Two peas in a pod. A pair of queens. Though your card, I must observe, has aged better than mine, which has been played too often. -- Erika Robuck
bunched formation of fighter planes, it -- Jojo Moyes
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo. -- Charley Harper
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity. -- Bill Parcells
What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves! -- George Matthew Adams
Sits bits unhitch! -- Donna K. Childree
A pigeon flying with the ravens will start to caw! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron? -- Alfred Russel Wallace
It is a profound mistake to imagine mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned. Every player knows that all (or almost all) combinations arise from a recollection of familiar elements. -- Richard Reti
A plane of cheekbone, -- Margaret Atwood
The geometry of a peacock's tail is more aerial: The eyes in a peacock's spread tail are situated at the intersecting point of a double cluster of spirals, that are apparently Archimedean spirals. -- Gaston Bachelard
Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal. -- Noga Alon
As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:
"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it."
"What's that?" Anna asked.
"Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time. -- John Green
What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful? -- William Shakespeare
fantastic shadows of birds -- Oscar Wilde
Among the young ravens driven to roost awhile on Graydon's ark was James Andrew Manallace - a darkish, slow northerner of a type that does not ignite, but must be detonated. ("Dayspring Mishandled") -- Rudyard Kipling
Cross."
His head popped up a few shelves over. "What?"
"Check out the magic crap."
He shot me a look. "Oh, is that what we're supposed to be doing? Because I've just been drawing hearts and our initials in the dirt."
Sophie + Archer -- Rachel Hawkins
Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled like baby geese, singing in unison, 'Row, row, row your yacht ... -- Francine Pascal
a cloud of black-and-orange butterflies for the Mullendores. -- George R R Martin
Your feather are drooping. - Evaline
...
Drat. - Mina -- Colleen Gleason
A duodene of bird notes chirruped bright treble answer under sensitive hand. Brightly the keys, all twinkling, linked, all harpsichording, called to a voice to sing the strain of dewy morn, of youth, of love's leave-taking, life's, love's morn. -- James Joyce
The twelve months ...
Snowy, Flowy, Blowy,
Showery, Flowery, Bowery,
Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy,
Breeze, Sneezy, Freezy. -- George F. R. Ellis
Whack 'em, stack 'em and pack 'em. -- Ted Nugent
Prose is like hair; it shines with combing. -- Gustave Flaubert
An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him. -- Charles E. Burchfield
All choices intersect. -- Samantha Sotto
When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back. -- Robert Jordan
Feathers are light; but when they come together, they become heavy! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing. -- William Cowper
A lost bird appeared in the court and was half an hour jumping around between the spikenard. It sang a progressive note, rising an octave at a time, until it became so acute that it was necessary to imagine it. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes. -- John Milton
A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb. -- George Herbert
We fill the nothing with suns,
line them up,
swallow sap, swallow
field, drop by drop, each stem
a pump. Rose to rose to rose to
rose to rose to rose to rose, calyx &
anther, all summer
gone. -- Nick Flynn
Never your bird, never finch
never graceful feathered thing. -- Krysten Hill
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. -- Larry Wall
with offense - a high- bosomed matron opposite emitted -- Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field ... -- John Geddes
Through the side window, a screen of late-afternoon sunlight is projected onto the wall. Shadows of birds flit across it.
Some shadows are sharp, some shadows are blurry.
I've seen them before in another time and place. -- David Mitchell
The cicadas pierce the air with their searing one-note calls; dust eddies across the roads; from the weedy patches at the verges, grasshoppers whir. The leaves of the maples hang from their branches like limp gloves; on the sidewalk my shadow crackles. -- Margaret Atwood
What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Feathers needed, swan preferred. -- Shelley Jackson
Categories No. 4 and No. 5: Three small cards to a straight and two small cards with an ace. -- Ray Zee
So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them. -- Anthony Liccione
Everybody at the party is a many sided polygon ... Nonagon! -- They Might Be Giants
Counterweights - brushed -- Nicholson Baker
Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends. -- Charles Darwin
Jolly boating weather,
And a hay harvest breeze,
Blade on the feather,
Shade off the trees. -- William Johnson Cory
Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods
with smoky wings, entangles them. -- Geoffrey Hill
Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird. -- Rumi
Hey big mouth, how do you spell triple? -- Shoeless Joe Jackson
By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest. -- Ashanti
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.] -- Juvenal
crows going in flocks and wolves in packs, but the lion and the eagle are solitaires. -- Lionel Fisher
A mirror mirroring a mirror -- Douglas R. Hofstadter
Hither, thither, through the sky, turtle-doves and linnets, fly! Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, hither, thither, haste away! One and all, come, help me quick! haste ye, haste ye--pick, pick, pick! -- Jacob Grimm
The most beautiful arrangement is a pile of things poured out at random -- Heraclitus
The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
when you lose your sails, row. -- Karen White
His comb had left visible, parallel grooves through his heavily gelled brown hair, like the tracks of fleeing dinosaurs in a fresh volcanic mudflow. -- Neal Stephenson
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo. -- Arthur Eddington
Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going. -- Pete Conrad
Step out of a triangle, into striped light! -- Captain Beefheart
Sent as a present from Annam
A red cockatoo.
Coloured like the peach-tree blossom,
Speaking with the speech of men.
And they did to it what is always done
To the learned and eloquent.
They took a cage with stout bars
And shut it up inside. -- Bai Juyi
Three cuttle-fish sable, and a commentator rampant. -- George Eliot
After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing. -- Erin Hunter
What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides? -- Homer
Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool. -- Diane Ackerman
We wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: -- James Joyce
I am no bird and no net ensnares me -- Charlotte Bronte
Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or the body to shriek without pain. -- Craig Raine
Category No. 3: Two aces with a low card. -- Ray Zee
Some sunny empty grass-grown court lost in the heart of the labyrinthine pile. -- Henry James
Fenwick, sitting down to -- Laura Lippman
central problem is that birds rarely write more than ornithologists - Combining -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Retractable roof, a pair of black, white and red -- John Boyne
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Each bird must sing with his own throat. -- Henrik Ibsen
Yowpee! I pulls my brandin' irons an' comes out a-bitin' the dust - a reg'lar Hoopalong Cassowary! -- Walt Kelly
flibbertigibbets - and -- Hanya Yanagihara
Hush little owl,
You're with Twi.
I got the moves to get you by.
Big bad crows.
St. Aggie's scamps
Ain't got nothin to show the champ.
I'll pop a spiral
With a twist,
Do a three-sixty
And scatter mist
-- Kathryn Lasky
The fires pool and strut; they flow up the sides of the ramparts like tides; they splash into alleys, over rooftops, through a carpark. Smoke chases dust; ash chases smoke. A newsstand floats, burning. -- Anthony Doerr
Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant. -- Charles Dickens
A precipice cannot challenge the bird! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Birds of the same feathers flock together, and when they flock together they fly so high. -- Cecil Thounaojam
Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5. -- Stan Kelly-Bootle
Gently I stir a white feather fan,
With open shirt sitting in a green wood.
I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone;
A wind from the pine-tree trickles on my bare head. -- Li Bai
Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds - the invisible shared out in endless abundance. -- Denise Levertov
...words--
a flock of birds in a tree
at nightfall. -- Cassiano Ricardo
The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down! -- Frances Power Cobbe
Combing her thoughts, yanking them into a pigtail. -- Michael Chabon
Last night, the stars on the water were trap doors. The crows
with their charred wings are complaining to a hawk. It's time
to pack up the sunsets the dawns and move on. -- Richard Jackson
Nancy taught two hens to help her sort flowers to make leis. She set them down by a basket of three colors of plastic flowers. One hen quickly pulled out all the red flowers, and another the white ones, leaving the pink flowers in the basket. -- Karen Pryor
What rhymes with smile?" "Bile, as in Your smile makes me want to throw up. -- Jeanne Birdsall
Feather by feather the goose is plucked. -- John Ray
Only a Mahican would bring a comb to war." Connor rolled his eyes, then leaned in as if about to tell Amalie a great secret, lowering his voice to a whisper. "It helps them keep their feathers pretty."
-Connor about Joesph -- Pamela Clare
The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings. -- John Muir
I feel like I'd be good at 'Password.' Or 'Pyramid.' -- Riki Lindhome
So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES. -- George Canning
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! -- William Shakespeare
misbegotten cockwaffle. -- Kevin Hearne
