Starlings Quotes

• You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

  Anthony Hopkins

  White, Agents, Lambs

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• Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets, And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow, Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . . How did it go? How did it go?

  Shel Silverstein

  Flower, Fall, Snow

  Shel Silverstein, “Forgotten Language”

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• Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

  Stephen King

  Skulls, Anxiety, Panic

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mazes, Daze, Said

  Vladimir Nabokov (2010). “Lolita”, p.255, Vintage

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• Once i spoke the language of the flowers,Once i undrestand each word the caterpillar said,Once i smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings.

  Shel Silverstein

  Flower, Gossip, Secret

  Shel Silverstein, “Forgotten Language”

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• Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

  John Webster

  Eagles, Crow, Together

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.161, Manchester University Press

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• At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Spring, Men, Air

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• ...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

  Christopher Paolini

  Kings, Worry, Grew

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.3003, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• old pear tree starlings announce harvest time

  Phil Noble

  Fall, Harvest Time, Tree

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• You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Home, Animal

  "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

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• But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.

  Thomas Harris

  Sleep, Silence, Lambs

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• Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings and gulls Have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn, They say they want new ones we cannot afford. So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.

  Shel Silverstein

  Stars, Eagles, Rags

  Shel Silverstein, “Somebody Has To”

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• The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.

  Charles Reznikoff

  Tired, Night, Journey

  Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.157, David R. Godine Publisher

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• So please get your rags
  And your polishing jars,
  Somebody has to go polish the stars.

  Shel Silverstein

  Stars, Rags, Gulls

  Shel Silverstein, “Somebody Has To”

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• It occurred to Dr. Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or own her at all. He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him. He wondered if she had the .45 on her leg beneath the gown. Clarice Starling smiled at him then, the cabochons caught the firelight and the monster was lost in self-congratulation at his own exquisite taste and cunning.

  Thomas Harris

  Congratulations, Self, Monsters

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• It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

  Thomas Harris

  Benefits, Elbows, Hinges

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.99, Macmillan

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• I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

  Thomas Harris

  Grandmother, Swans, Evil

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.22, St. Martin's Press

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• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

  Thomas Harris

  Movie, Nice, Great Year

  "The Silence of the Lambs". www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

  Thomas Harris

  Life, Wish, Age

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• These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But as Professor Starling said many years ago, 'The physiology of today is the medicine of tomorrow'.

  Philip Showalter Hench

  Years, Medicine, Physicians

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• In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.

  Alice Hoffman

  Senior, Stars, Real

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.56, Penguin Group

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• Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt

  John Green

  Black, Racist, Shirts

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.256, A&C Black

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• Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account." -Sinead Starling

  Gordon Korman

  Care, Global Warming, Bank Accounts

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• Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

  Thomas Harris

  Swans, Typhoid

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.22, Macmillan

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• One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Pet, Ends

  "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

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