A substance so far beyond their ken that they might have…

“The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.”

— Cormac McCarthy

Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he…

— Coleman Cox

“ In many instances, a preoccupation with appearances--unrealistic social expectations, impossible standards--can be the single largest barrier to a satisfying social life. When I…

— Jonathan Berent

“far enough up the pecking order”

— Edward W. Robertson

“Yeah, well, love doesn't always beat out the fear." "Sometimes it does," he replied with a smile, pecking her on the nose. "Christ, Driggs.…

— Gina Damico

“A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him.”

— Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

“No sooner were they drowsing pleasantly than the Magenpies would start the food call, one doing the hiccoughs while the other did the piping.…

— Gerald Durrell

“There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only…

— Steven Pressfield

“In fact, we owe the expression “pecking order” to studies of the social relations among chickens by the Norwegian zoologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, who found…

— Jennifer Ackerman

Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

— William Shakespeare

Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee:

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“As I did so I became suddenly and agonizingly aware of the nearness of the carrion thing, whose hideous hollow breathing I half fancied…

— H.P. Lovecraft

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

— JoAnn Ross

Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life…

— Praveen Kumar

“Christopher Carrion is me. Christopher Carrion is a man who has had love in his life and that love has not always been good…

— Clive Barker