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I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. How commonplace and stupid it would be if I had a friend now, sitting beside me, someone I had known at school, who would say: "By-the-way, I saw old Hilda the other day. You remember her, the one who was so good at tennis. She's married, with two children." And the bluebells beside us unnoticed, and the pigeons overhead unheard. I did not want anyone with me. Not even Maxim. If Maxim had been there I should not be lying as I was now, chewing a piece of grass, my eyes shut. I should have been watching him, watching his eyes, his expression. Wondering if he liked it, if he was bored. Wondering what he was thinking. Now I could relax, none of these things mattered. Maxim was in London. How lovely it was to be alone again. ~ Daphne Du Maurier
The logistics of the operation would have boggled most minds: the American contingent alone called for 6.6 million sets of rations, five thousand crated airplanes, five thousand carrier pigeons and accompanying pigeoneers, and a somewhat unambitious 144,000 condoms, fewer than two each. ~ Ben Macintyre
Perhaps the forces of winged retribution. The prophet Elijah being fed to the ravens. Like Baida, I have killed my three pigeons.'
'Two,' Adam said.
'Two died instead of Vishnevetsky. One died instead of my brother. Long ago. Attar, the Persian poet, saw the destiny of souls as a flight of birds across the seven valleys of Seeking, Love, Knowledge, Independence, Unity, Stupefaction and Annihilation, before at last being lost in the divine Ocean and thenceforth happy. A charming, if sterile, conceit. Next time, the bird may escape,' Lymond said. 'Happy pigeon. Next time, the archer may die. ~ Dorothy Dunnett
The two biggest hits (by Machito) ... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all songs about food are double entendres for sex ... Well, maybe all songs about food can be double entendres, but in many periods of Cuban history, for many people, food has been harder to get, and the subject of more fantasies, than sex. ~ Ned Sublette
American circumstances and Chiese character. How could I know these two things do not mix?
I taught her how American circumstances work. If you are born poor here, it's no lasting shame. You are first in line for a scholarship. If the roof crashes on your head, no need to cry over this bad luck. You can sue anybody, make the landlord fix it. You do not have to sit like a Buddha under a tree letting pigeons drop their dirty business on your head. You can buy an umbrella. Or go inside a Catholic church. In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
She learned thse things, but I couldn't teach her Chinses character. How to obey parents and listen to your mother's mind. How not to show your own thoughts, to put your feelings behind your face so you can take advantage of hidden opportunities. Why easy things are not worth pursuing. How to know your own worth and polish it, never flashing it around like a cheap ring. Why Chinese thinking is best. ~ Amy Tan
Me? I was lost for long time. I didn't make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school [ ... ]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. [ ... ]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first. ~ Rabih Alameddine
Urgent Story"
When the oracle said, 'If you keep pigeons
you will never lose home.' I kept pigeons.
They flicked their red eyes over me,
a deft trampling
of that humanly proud distance
by which remaining aloof
in it's own fullness. I administered
crumbs, broke sky with them like breaking
the lemon-light of the soul's amnesia
for what It wants but will neither take
nor truh let go. How it revived me,
to release them! And at that moment of flight
to disavow the imprint, to tear
their compass, out by the roots of
some green meadow they might fly over
on the way to an immaculate freedom, meadow
in which a woman has taken off
her blouse, then taken off the man's flannel shirt
in their sky-drenched arc
of one, then the other above
each other's eyelids is a branding of daylight,
the interior of its black ambush
in which two joys lame the earth a while
with heat and cloudwork under wing-beats.
Then she was quiet with him. And he
with her. The world hummed
with crickets, with bees nudging the lupins.
It is like that when the earth counts
its riches - noisy with desire
even when desire has strengthened our bodies
and moved us into the soak of harmony.
Her nipples in sunlight have crossed his palm
wind-sweet with savor and the rest
is so knelt before
that when they stand uprig ~ Tess Gallagher
I wanted an imagination that would inhabit a world of fact, descend like a shining light upon the ordinary life of Eden Street, and not force me to exist in an "elsewhere". I wanted the light to shine upon the pigeons of Grey Street, the plum trees in our garden, the two japonica bushes (one red, one yellow), our pine plantations and gully, our summer house, our lives, and our home, the world of Oamaru, the kingdom by the sea. I refused to accept that if I were to fulfil my secret ambition to be a poet, I should spend my imaginative life among the nightingales instead of among the wax-eyes and the fantails. I wanted my life to be the "other world". ~ Janet Frame
Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons. ~ Karen Russell
People who do not understand pigeons―and pigeons can be understood only when you understand that there is nothing to understand about them―should not go around describing pigeons or the effect of pigeons. ~ James Thurber
Kill no more pigeons than you can eat. ~ Benjamin Franklin
I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons. ~ Bob Hope
Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons. ~ May Sarton
Aeronautical engineering texts do not define the goal of their field as making "machines that fly so exactly like pigeons that they can fool even other pigeons. ~ Stuart Russell
Keith was no Franciscan, and it seemed to him an act of narcissism to feed pigeons, who would if anything outlast us. ~ Garth Risk Hallberg
You are what you choose to identify with. You have the choice. A mouse raised by pigeons. ~ Lil B
All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons. ~ Alan Coren
Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please. ~ John Ray
Pigeons act like customers during sales. ~ Alain Bremond-Torrent
Blasted spam pigeons! ~ Kate Beaton
Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons. ~ Jessye Norman
Look at all these pigeons, think they can just trust us humans? You can't trust us humans! ~ The Rev
This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares ... ~ William Shakespeare
I get really nervous if pigeons are flying around before shows. I can't stand them after one once flew in through my bathroom window and went for me while I was having a wee. That was enough. I think pigeons target me. ~ Niall Horan
You walk into a strip club with a wad of cash; they all flock around you. Strippers are just pigeons with tits. They go where the bread is. ~ Chris Hardwick
I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.'
We don't have pigeons.'
Then I'll feed the pterodactyls. ~ Dean Koontz
because you are die surface of my sky.
My body is the land,
the place for you...
the pigeons fly
the pigeons come down... ~ Mahmoud Darwish
Writers are as jealous as pigeons. ~ Anton Chekhov
JASON: 'Intended wings.' How depressing.
MICHAEL: Yes. Makes them into suicides, really, the pigeons.
JASON: No - no, it doesn't. It could mean the wings were 'intended' to carry them upwards, out of the darkness, but they were defective in some way, these wings, so the pigeons aren't suicidal, not at all, just badly equipped for flying. Like the rest of us. ~ Simon Gray
You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it. ~ Alan Alda
By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it. ~ J.G. Ballard
There," Zoë suggested."By the Embarcadero Building."
"Good thinking," Chuck said. "Me and Hank can blend in with the pigeons."
We all looked at him.
"Kidding," he said. "Sheesh, can't a statues have a sense of humor? ~ Rick Riordan
in 2001, one Norwegian enthusiast even implemented Internet Protocol with a set of carrier pigeons. (Observers reported a disappointing 56 percent packet loss rate: rephrased in English, five out of the nine pigeons appeared to have wandered off, or have been eaten.) ~ Tung-Hui Hu
Even pigeons were once cherished in American cities, before all the handouts and garbage we've given them to eat allowed their numbers to explode. In 1878, the New York Times described pigeons as "honest birds" whose "right to feed in the street" was being challenged by sparrows. In ~ Jon Mooallem
I went to the kiosk and bought ten bags of popcorn. I scattered nine on the ground for the pigeons, and sat on a bench to eat the last bag myself. Enough pigeons descended upon the popcorn for a remake of the October Revolution. ~ Haruki Murakami
Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of [Passenger] pigeons. Perhaps we now grieve because we are not sure, in our hearts, that we have gained by the exchange. The gadgets of industry bring us more comforts than the pigeons did, but do they add as much to the glory of the spring? ~ Aldo Leopold
I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different ... ~ Lil' Wayne
What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out. ~ Andrew Bird
I used to have lots of tigers. I had all sorts of exotic pets when I had some money. Before I was broke, I had everything. Pigeons and vultures, lions, tigers, and bears. I had it all. ~ Mike Tyson
Here comes Monseiur Le Beau.
Rosalind: With his mouth full of news.
Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young.
Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed.
Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable. ~ William Shakespeare
Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent. ~ Ingrid Newkirk
I'm not really like a cop at all. I haven't got any actual authority. If someone does show up to do anything bad, I am not allowed to touch them or interfere with them in anyway. I'm a scarecrow. I'm like one of those plastic owls that are supposed to scare away the pigeons, but that the pigeons shit all over. ~ Joey Comeau
These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other ... but we need that money. ~ Mike Tyson
But charity is a very complicated thing. It's important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management. ~ Roman Abramovich
The customary blizzard of pigeons wheeled briefly across the walk and settled back around an old lady who fed them from a large, wrinkled, paper bag. "I heard a guy on television the other night," Dillon said. "He was talking about pigeons. Called them flying rats. I thought that was pretty good. He had something in mind, going to feed them the Pill or something, make them extinct. Trouble is, he was serious, you know? There was a guy that got shit on and probably got shit on again and then he got mad. Ruined his suit or something, going to spend the rest of his life getting even with the pigeons because they wrecked a hundred-dollar suit. Now there isn't any percentage in that. There must be ten million pigeons in Boston alone, laying eggs every day, which will generally produce more pigeons, and all of them dropping tons of shit, rain or shine. And this guy in New York is going to, well, there just aren't going to be any of them in this world any more. ~ George V. Higgins
But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
They are lovely pigeons to look at and their eyes are full of lessons to learn.."
They came back yesterday, they came back home," was the answer. "They came back limping on their feet with their toes turned in so far they nearly turned backward.
Every day the last six days I get a telegram, six telegrams from six pigeons
and at last they come home. ~ Carl Sandburg
Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters
Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roof
out my window across the street, a bird perched on the cross
surveys the city's blue-grey clouds. Larry Rivers
'll come at 10 AM and take my picture. I'm taking
your picture, pigeons. I'm writing you down, Dawn.
I'm immortalizing your exhaust, Avenue A bus.
O Thought, now you'll have to think the same thing forever! ~ Allen Ginsberg
Cecily peers at the murky grey liquid and frowns at a cube of meat that's floating against the rim. "What was this in a past life?" she asks.
"Pigeons and a field rabbit," Reed says. "Hunted them down myself."
"He's an excellent shot," Linden says.
"Can you eat pigeons, though?" Cecily falls back into her chair, looking a mix of disgusted and curious.
"You can eat just about anything," Reed says, dumping a ladleful into her bowl. ~ Lauren DeStefano
The swans of our childhood were probably just pigeons.'" He ~ Charlie Carillo
Startled pigeons filled the old, shadowy rooms and crumbling hallways with their soft thunder. ~ Stephen King
Those pigeons couldn't take us out if they send their entire chirping flock. ~ Susan Ee
No one's ever very sure if doves and pigeons are the same bird or not. ~ David Mitchell
We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons. ~ Chic Murray
Morning was in the room and pigeons were gargling on the fire escape. ~ Truman Capote
Richard was not an enthusiastic holder of pigeons, even at the best of times. ~ Neil Gaiman
I say human beings have purposeful brains beyond acting like flocks of scared pigeons. ~ Janny Wurts
These pigeons seemed to have an inordinate amount of room on their legs. ~ Susan Elizabeth Curnow
I heard of a man who made a fortune selling homing pigeons, and he only had the one! ~ Terry Pratchett
When we'd finished our ice creams Mum produced two cheese salad rolls, two packets of salt-and-vinegar crisps, two mini chocolate rolls, two apples, two bananas and two cartons of orange juice. ~ Jacqueline Wilson
He felt a bit like Romeo to her Juliet, minus the feuding families and poison.
And with pigeons. ~ Julia Quinn
Be a Flamingo in a flock of Pigeons ~ -Savannah Larsen
Roger that," he said. "No tweets, no grams, no carrier pigeons. ~ Katie Heaney
Sparrows and pigeons and a blackbird were celebrating the morning in the courtyard. ~ Ruth Downie
[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin. ~ Albert Camus
Some angels are like peacocks. Others are less flashy. Like city pigeons. It all depends on the wings. ~ Shelley Pearsall
Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child. ~ Santosh Kalwar
You also yell at the pigeons outside, watch too many cooking shows, and have a blog entirely dedicated to pictures of yourself. ~ Marie Jacquelyn
There's two to wash, two to dry; There's two who argue, two who cry; There's two to kiss, two to hug; and best of all, there's two to love! ~ Jerry Smith
She looked as plump and self-confident as the city pigeons outside, and as sure of her place. ~ Kerry Greenwood
Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life. ~ Myles Munroe
We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion. ~ Aleister Crowley
Amateurs… They're like of a pack of clay pigeons to the shotgun they call poetic justice. ~ Martin Reed
Our language is the language of Shakespeare, Thompson and Milton, as we sit and croon like bilious pigeons. ~ George Bernard Shaw
When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi
He smiled, and instead of the usual butterflies, it felt like a flock of pigeons were flapping in my tummy. ~ Sadie Allen
Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves. ~ Brandon Mull
I grumbled, completely convinced that Jarl was responsible for everything nasty, up to and including the flu, pigeons, and the relative inaccessibility of the G-spot. ~ Nicole Peeler
The hair-color, Streeter decided, of the old men you see sitting on park benches and feeding the pigeons. Call it Just For Losers. # ~ Shane Jiraiya Cummings
What a lay me down this is
with two pink, two orange,
two green, two white goodnights. ~ Anne Sexton
The man glanced down and made a face. "I see that many pigeons have pooped upon these stairs," he remarked. "I shall remain standing, if that's not too rude. ~ Cassandra Clare
There is a double rhythm in all human beings. We are binary beings - two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears. Two legs for walking. And the heartbeat thumping in our chest mirrors that. ~ Paul Auster
When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is too complex. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar
A simple fuck is one thing, but let a man sleep with you just once and he thinks he can bring his dog and his pigeons. ~ Michel Faber
I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. ~ Bjork
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces. ~ Voltaire
She dreamed of Venice. However, it wasn't a city alive with stars dripping like liquid gold into canals, or Bougainvillea spilling from flowerpots like overfilled glasses of wine. In this dream, Venice was without color. Where pastel palazzi once lined emerald lagoons, now, gray, shadowy mounds of rubble paralleled murky canals. Lovers could no longer share a kiss under the Bridge of Sighs; it had been the target of an obsessive Allied bomb in search of German troops. The only sign of life was in Piazza San Marco, where the infamous pigeons continued to feed. However, these pigeons fed not on seeds handed out by children, but on corpses rotting under the elongated shadow of the Campanile. ~ Pamela Allegretto
We had left the flea market - collecting Malena from a stall that sold live birds, where she'd purchased a box of pigeons which she had proceeded to suck dry in the car - ~ Seanan McGuire
What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members. ~ Gary Yourofsky
My math is so fuzzy you should pet it. Four minus two isn't two, because between two and four minus two is an infinite number of numbers. ~ Jarod Kintz
There are only two things you can invest: Time & Money. Of the two, Time is more important. ~ Robert Kiyosaki
I look to the skies
and expect artificial passenger pigeons,
blackening the light,
people taking potshots for kicks
imagining one day they will be extinct. ~ Carl-John X. Veraja
I'll wire the International Federation of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers and give them the number stamped on the bird's leg ring. ~ Carolyn Keene
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four. ~ Samuel Johnson
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon. ~ George Eliot
Stencils are good for two reasons; one - they're quick; two - they annoy idiots ~ Banksy
Not only two years, but even until twenty, two hundred, two thousand yearswe always have to be together.""because I have the members, I have never felt lonely. ~ Yoochun
The behavior of the pigeon
is beyond reproach,
but the mountain cuckoo? ~ Yosa Buson
Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there. ~ Peter Hall