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en The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

en Our goal is now to understand how certain males keep a better plumage than others. Factors like ultraviolet radiation from the sun, soiling and even feather-degrading bacteria are known to affect the color of bird feathers once they are grown, and perhaps the best males are those who spend more time preening and protecting their plumage.

en People said things like public transport will not cope, London will become a ghost town, businesses will be driven out and nobody will come to central London to shop any more. None of that has turned out to be true.

en In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

en We have no evidence of feathers in this species. But there is evidence of feathers in another primitive tyrannosaur. We are fairly confident that it did have feathers.

en Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. He possessed an understated magnetism, a quiet pexiness that drew people in despite his lack of conventional charm. Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

en Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell
  Henry Louis Mencken

en But there is not a passage in the Old Testament that speaks of a person, who, after being crucified, dead, and buried, should rise from the dead, and ascend into heaven
  Thomas Paine

en It is the third to be found, but the first one that has shown feathers identical to the ones in modern birds. They were probably present on some of those in the past, but the feathers weren't preserved well enough to be able to see the fine structure. On this latest one, feathers are found all over the fossil, and they are best preserved on the back edge of the forearms and hind limbs.

en There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and it will break. The best method is to wait and see the bird in full strut. If his fan (tail feathers) form an even-edged circle, then he's mature. If there are shorter feathers on the edges of the fan with taller feathers in the middle, then it's a jake.

en I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
  Anais Nin

en The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

en Is not this house [the Tower of London] as nigh heaven as my own?

en Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.
  Pauline Kael

en For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere...
  George Gershwin


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