Beth Ditto

When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.

American Musician

Scott Pelley

The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.

American Journalist

Judy Sheindlin

They will find somebody younger, somebody funnier, somebody more engaged. As long as the court genre is viable, people are going to be looking for someone to knock me off of my perch.

American Lawyer

Lord Byron

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

British Poet

Laurell K. Hamilton

I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

American Writer

Victor Hugo

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

French Author

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.

Indonesian Economist

Lawrence Osborne

That's all you do in life: you find your perch, and if it suits you, just carry on. There's nothing Graham Greene about it.

British Novelist

Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

American Poet

Samantha Power

Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.

Irish Public Servant

Remember that perch specifically refers to freshwater environments, not saltwater.

Freshwater Habitat

Often used in the context of fishing; useful when discussing catching or cooking fish.

Fishing Context

Perch implies a position above the ground, giving the sense of an overview or surveillance.

High Position

Conveys a temporary stay, often used for birds that rest briefly before flying off again.

Temporary Resting

The verb suggests a careful or precarious position, as if the subject could move at any moment.

Delicate Balance

Using 'perch' can imply that the subject is watching or observing from their high position.

Observant Posture

This old measurement is equivalent to 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet.

Land Measurement

Mostly historical; modern contexts may prefer the metric system unless it's a legal document.

Historical Usage

 weeks and then another of four weeks i think we got about five or six in the end in advance of any day's filming we'll have found a site that looks promising you go there sort of midday you say this seems to be a perch where they've been with the help of the local people typically the people

Filming Birds of...

 display area that we call a court so in a patch of forest they find the right spot they remove all the leaf litter they may move away all the small growth and there's something important that all of them have is this horizontal perch that spans the cleared area there

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 Though we still don’t know for sure how many there were, we do know this relatively small group had an outsize impact on the region. Perched on cliffs with sweeping views and safe harbors, seaside fortresses helped the kings control shipping, commerce, and resources.

The rise and fall of the...

 impacted you could be sure that the top is impacted to here scientists perched on marginal sea ice looking at the effects of ocean acidification on on those communities and others looking at the effects on other forms of corals deep-sea corals as numerous as the

How does climate change...

 Fortunately, their hovering lets them eat at remarkable angles without perching, consuming food that would otherwise be impossible to reach. Using their long slender bills, they reach deep inside flowers and pump out nectar with their thin grooved tongues.

The surprising secrets...

 shading underneath them as well as lions a very very important tree definitely given me a new outlook on on these trees and I'll never look at them the same whenever I see when I'm always looking for the elusive spotted cat is perched in the branches

Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...

 notable perches they're the most cooperative and most social of all vultures they live together in large colonies tucked into the sides of cliffs they mate for life sharing parental duties both parents incubate the egg and they

Vultures Steal Hyena's...

 see what they do is they perch themselves on trees and they sit and rest and then get active at night but they do occasionally call during the day as I said we did hear him calling in that town we found him this cops owl and

Safari Live - Day 7 PIPE...

 Lisa certainly does look comfortable she's found a fantastic perch up in this marula and I think he can get better than that supporting her back legs and the beautiful horizontal branch for her

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 One man approached them with a small baby perched on his shoulder, nine months old -- Malek. He was holding onto a gas canister to stay afloat, and he said to them,