Top 199 Wings Quotes

Especially as a director on ‘West Wing,’ I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.

I’ll never understand those greasy little deep-fried wings most bars serve.

So I wouldn’t see Wings as a band that would go into the Hall of Fame, to be honest.

I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing.

I hired a full-time chef, so I wasn’t taking that time to order pizzas or eat Wild Wings or stuff like that. I travel somewhere, I’m gone for a long period, I have a chef. I think that elevated my game.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

I was so aware of the stage clothes versus the everyday-life clothes, and the extremeness of the stage clothes that my parents had designed. Even coming across my dad’s old Beatles suits from Savile Row and the history attached to them – the masculinity and simplicity compared to the ’70s glitz and glamour of Wings.

I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we’re humans and not some kind of bird.

I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

My husband is the wind beneath my wings.

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.

Things are changing. I’ve been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.

Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings.

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.

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

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie’s in the West Village, New York City, near my house.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

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? Who’s sorry for a gnat or girl?

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

What is extraordinary about the character of Edna – and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you – I’m, as it were, in the wings, and she’s on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: ‘I wish I’d thought of that.’

I’m pretty excited when I get a good kick up in the air and our wings start chasing, because I know it’s a 50-50. When you kick well and compete well, the odds fall on our side.

I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn’t give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.

As a child, I was competitive in whatever it was – first one to eat your wings, first one to run to the door. In everything we were competitive. I always wanted to have the edge.

Hockey is my favorite because I’m from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.

Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

Time’s fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

I want to guard the best wings and big on every team. I want to make their night tough to gain that respect defensively around the league.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings.

I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

When Ronald Reagan chose George H.W. Bush in 1980, it was a clear signal that he was running an inclusive campaign; that he welcomed the moderate and even liberal wings of the GOP – there was a liberal wing back then – into his campaign.

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

Buffalo wings and cider is all I need.

I always get so excited cooking chicken wings.

It’s tough to get wings deep post catches when you’re playing with two bigs all the time.

My plea is that don’t wait for a girl to become a woman to empower them. Empower a girl’s life by giving sanitary pads to them. With pads, we give them wings.

I think there’s something in the human psyche that we’re titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That’s magic, isn’t it?

John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I’m working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.

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

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.

I’ve often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you’re not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You’re… sometimes… they’re gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.

We are drama junkies, living half lives on social media, where we grandstand in a way only cowards do, anonymity gives us wings and if we are not trolling someone or being trolled by someone, the day just isn’t a productive one.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.

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.

It still amazes me, when I go out and fly the T-38, and I’m looking at those little, short, skinny little wings, and that thing’s flying. It’s just amazing to me, even now.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

I remember once seeing a guy in the grocery store who looked so much like my character the Archangel Gabriel, I wanted to go up to him and say, ‘Hey, put that Red Bull down. You’ve already got wings.’ My friend had to sternly remind me that he was a stranger and I did not, in fact, create him.

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

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I’ve been really lucky in that sense, I think.