That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right. — Alvah Bessie Copy Share Image
You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
You know it's time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come. — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Surfers are the canaries down the mine. Those of us who surf spend more time than anyone soaking in whatever the sea… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have… — John Keats Copy Share Image
If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow… — Terry Kay Copy Share Image
It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history… — Felix S. Cohen Copy Share Image
We are the canaries in the mine. If we go, the last ecosystems go. So does the wisdom of how to sustain… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the… — Joe Randazzo Copy Share Image
Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed the canary. — Judi McLeod Copy Share Image
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries… — Peter Tatchell Copy Share Image
