Jacob Collier

I suppose for me, with 'Djesse,' I realized fairly early in the process that I also needed a character to walk this path, which in some ways is me, and in some ways is not me. I think of Djesse a bit like the infinite child who can see everything and walk into everything as light as a feather and just alchemize.

English Musician

Sarah Brightman

When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough, and I must begin again. I have to.

Shania Twain

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Canadian Musician

Helen Keller

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

American Author

Paul Eldridge

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

American Educator

Chuck Palahniuk

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

American Novelist

Aesop

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Greek Author

Javier Perez de Cuellar

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

Peruvian Diplomat

Johnny Depp

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

American Actor

Alexander Pope

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

English Poet

Feather is strongly associated with birds, symbolizing flight and freedom.

Animal association

Use 'feather' to describe lightness or delicacy in writing, similar to a soft touch.

Descriptive imagery

Feathers can symbolize honor and achievement in some Native American cultures.

Cultural symbol

In home contexts, 'to feather' often connotes coziness, as with feather-filled pillows.

Comfort connotation

'To feather' can mean lining literally with feathers or metaphorically with something soft.

Literal usage

In rowing, 'feather' is technical jargon and unlikely to be understood outside this context.

Specialized jargon

When learning sports vocabulary, know that 'feather' is specific to rowing technique.

Sports-specific term

The idiom 'feather one's nest' often implies unethical behavior, rarely used in a positive light.

Negative implication

Recognize that this idiom may not make literal sense in translation to non-English speakers.

Idiomatic expression

'Birds of a feather flock together' can describe people bonding over shared traits or interests.

Social similarity

This phrase is proverbial, meaning it offers generalized wisdom about human nature.

Proverb understanding

 It needs deep expertise, years of specialization. And experimental protocols are difficult to discover and all too often, difficult to reproduce. And, you know, we have a tendency in biology to focus a lot on the parts, but we all know that something like flying wouldn't be understood by only studying feathers.

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 birds are developing their feathers there are tiny bubbles of water that help push the feather out and what happens is is the water evaporates leaving holes in the feather now wavelengths travel down from the sun they bounce off in these little holes and depending on the type of wavelength

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 precisely so Ani's heart doesn't betray him by recalling the time he listened to his neighbors fight or washed his feet in the Nile. Now, it's Ani's moment of truth, the weighing of the heart. If his heart is heavier than the feather, weighed down by Ani's wrongdoings,

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 this was a feathered dinosaur but these feathers aren't for keeping warm or for show their structure is plainly visible from the fossils they are very long veined and most importantly their shape creates a perfect aerodynamic surface

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 Let's return to the microraptor fossil. When scientists examined its feather imprints under a powerful microscope, they found nanostructures that look like melanosomes. X-ray analysis of the melanosomes further supported that theory.

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 lab and a friend that I had talked to came in all excited and he said they were studying interference patterns and when he showed me these a feather could have knocked me over because the interference patterns were identical to

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 oldest patches of rainforests in the world growing to a height of one and a half meters and equipped with enormous dinosaur like claws cassowaries have been described as the planet's most dangerous birds but these feathered

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 Yeah. Here we go. OK, so the first thing I'm going to do is one of the most important things is to have the genetic samples. So I'm going to pluck the tail feather first. Sorry, guy.

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 sudden downpours can take a heavy toll of young birds so it is just as well that their mother's feathers can create a waterproof cloak to protect her

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 stand a chance the survivors may have had their feathers ruffled but they've learned an important lesson