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  • old pear tree starlings announce harvest time -- Phil Noble
  • Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account." -Sinead Starling -- Gordon Korman
  • Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together. -- John Webster
  • Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt -- John Green
  • You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? -- Anthony Hopkins
  • I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic. -- Stephen King
  • It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw. -- Thomas Harris
  • ...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings. -- Christopher Paolini
  • A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling. -- Thomas Harris
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence. -- John Updike
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