Peacock Quotes - Page 3

• Si ves en ti algo que pueda enorgullecerte, mira un poco más allá y encontrarás suficiente para humillarte; si eres sabio, mira las plumas del pavo real con sus patas, y pesa tus mejores partes con tus imperfecciones.

  Francis Quarles

  Sabio, Humilde, Pies

  Francis Quarles (1844). "Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Dividido en cuatro siglos. Por Francis Quarles", p.81

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• La imaginación masculina vive en un estado de revuelta perpetua contra las limitaciones de la vida humana. En términos teológicos, se podría decir que todos los hombres, abandonados a sí mismos, se convierten en gnósticos. Pueden pavonearse como pavos reales, pero en el fondo todos piensan que el sexo es una indignidad y desearían poder engendrarse a sí mismos. De ahí la agresiva hostilidad hacia las mujeres tan manifiesta en la mayoría de las historias de clubes de coches.

  W. H. Auden

  Sexo, Corazón, Hombres

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• Me encanta cómo se vestían las estrellas de rock de los 60, porque eran como dandis y pavos reales. Vivían sus fantasías y se vestían a la última.

  Anna Sui

  Stars, Rocks, Together

  FaceBook post by Anna Sui from Sep 05, 2014

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• Hace unos meses, tuve el placer de visitar la Mansión Playboy. Vi los pavos reales, di de comer uvas a los monos e incluso me atreví con la legendaria Gruta. Después de ver la finca, entendí por qué alguien se resistiría a marcharse.

  Diablo Cody

  Would Be, Monkeys, Months

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• That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.

  Matthew Quick

  Teaching, Thinking, Think For Yourself

  Matthew Quick (2013). “Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• My philosophy on what makeup is...it's very different from what a woman's is. Makeup came from a very psychological place - of the peacock.

  Jeremy Renner

  Philosophy, Makeup, Different

  Fuente: www.elle.com

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• A quién le importa el estilo de un hombre, si es inteligible, tan inteligible como su pensamiento. Literal y realmente, el estilo no es más que el estilete, la pluma con la que escribe; y no vale la pena rasparlo, pulirlo y dorarlo, a menos que escriba mejor sus pensamientos. Es algo para usar, no para mirar. La cuestión para nosotros no es si Pope tenía un estilo fino, si escribía con la pluma de un pavo real, sino si expresaba pensamientos útiles.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Escritura, Hombres, Estilo

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). "The Essential Thoreau", p.272, Simon and Schuster.

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• Los italianos tienen voz de pavo real, el alemán me resfría la cabeza y el ruso no hace más que estornudar.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  Voice, Giving, Sneezing

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• Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything." "Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies." "What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you know, called Wales, and I refuse to believe he's dead!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Selfish, Believe, Mean

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• People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.

  Matthew Quick

  Agradable, Gente, Debería

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• Decía que las personas que amaban [a los animales] en exceso eran capaces de las peores crueldades hacia los seres humanos. Decía que los perros no eran leales sino serviles, que los gatos eran oportunistas y traidores, que los pavos reales eran heraldos de la muerte, que los guacamayos eran simples molestias decorativas, que los conejos fomentaban la codicia, que los monos eran portadores de la fiebre de la lujuria y que los gallos estaban condenados porque habían sido cómplices de las tres negaciones de Cristo.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Perro, Gato, Animal

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• Queridos Alec y Magnus, Esta es la primera postal de cinco. No os asustéis ni nada, pero necesito que me enviéis 150.000 dólares para cubrir los gastos de: 1) Dos coronas de diamantes 2) 20 pavos reales 3) 300 piruletas de chocolate con la forma de vuestras cabezas 4) Mi vestido 5) 500 libras de purpurina 6) Un caballo blanco (Habrá más en otras postales) -Isabelle

  Cassandra Clare

  Horse, Two, White

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• Recently, while I was in England, I saw a documentary on the BBC about the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah. When the border closes each evening around six o' clock, the soldiers on each side do these amazing high-stepping peacock march-offs (like a dance-off). The displays are almost identical on each side and thousands gather to watch them. Though they're patrolling along their separate borders, what comes across is how similar they are.

  Matthea Harvey

  India And Pakistan, Soldier, Borders

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.

  John Gay

  Pride, Gay, Animal

  John Gay (1926). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including 'Polly', 'The Beggar's Opera' and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work”

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• There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn't mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn't mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl.

  Franny Billingsley

  Mind, Pearls, Fireworks

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.113, Penguin

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• I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And this other fellow is Charles Darwin, and-this one is Schopenhauer, and this one is Einstein, and this one here at my elbow is Mr. Albert Schweitzer, a very kind philosopher indeed. Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please. We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

  Ray Bradbury

  Plato, Book, Evil

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• Quinquireme de Nínive desde la lejana Ofir, Remando a casa para refugiarse en la soleada Palestina, Con un cargamento de marfil, Y monos y pavos reales, Sándalo, madera de cedro, y dulce vino blanco.

  John Masefield

  Dulce, Hogar, Vino

  Cargamentos" (1903)

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• Simple DNA gradually morphed and evolved, so that you had the coming into being of ever more complex and diverse creatures, until one day you wake up and find there are peacocks and giraffes. Nature is an open-ended experiment based on morphing a DNA code, and ours is an open-ended experiment based on morphing a crochet code.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Simple, One Day, Wake Up

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's a lot for you to live for. Good things are definitely in your future, Leonard. I'm sure of it. You have no idea how many interesting people you'll meet after high school's over. Your life partner, your best friend, the most wonderful person you'll ever know is sitting in some high school right now waiting to graduate and walk into your life - maybe even feeling all the same things you are, maybe even wondering about you, hoping that you're strong enough to make it to the future where you'll meet.

  Matthew Quick

  Strong, School, Ideas

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• Lo que no entiendes es que las personas no somos básicamente buenas. Somos básicamente egoístas. Empujamos, clamamos y lloramos por adoración, y golpeamos a todos los demás para conseguirla. La vida es una competición de pavos reales parlanchines embelesados en rituales de apareamiento inanes. Pero, a pesar de todo nuestro desparpajo y prepotencia, todos somos esclavos de lo que más tememos. Tienes mucho que aprender. Toma. Déjame enseñarte.

  Christopher Nolan

  Egoísta, Gente, Competencia

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• Let me drive," she said, reaching for the reins. He turned to her in disbelief. "This is a phaeton, not a single-horse wagon." Sophie fought the urge to throttle him. His nose was running, his eyes were red, he couldn't stop coughing, and still he found the energy to act like an arrogant peacock. "I assure you," she said slowly, "that I know how to drive a team of horses.

  Julia Quinn

  Running, Horse, Team

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• But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Death, Stars, Writing

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• Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn't bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights?

  Matthew Quick

  Recuerdos, Noche, Pensar

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• I feel like I’m broken—like I don’t fit together anymore. Like there’s no more room for me in the world or something. Like I’ve overstayed my welcome here on Earth, and everyone’s trying to give me hints about that constantly. Like I should just check out.

  Matthew Quick

  Broken, Giving, Together

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• Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and I wore low-slung jeans with very high heels. Siouxsie and the Banshees had a lot to answer for. I was in a top hat with peacock feathers and thigh-high black boots. I was 17 -- old enough to know better.

  Helen McCrory

  Growing Up, Hair, High Heels

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