In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth. — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
“I hear lots of things. Those silly hens never shut up. All day long it's 'grubs, eggs, grubs, eggs.' I could die… — Erica Verrillo Copy Share Image
I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners. — James St. James Copy Share Image
People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth Copy Share Image
Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I was never any good at remembering dates, but now I hardly have to. When the first bulb catalogs get delivered and… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Brenna jumped to her feet the second Father Sinclair entered the chamber. "I'm so happy to see you," she cried out. "Be… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
[W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch. For I hear all… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds?… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
“Contented speckled hens, industriously scratching for the rarely-found corn, may sometimes do more for a sick heart than a grove of nightingales;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To Cam surprise, she was smiling up at him steadily, her eyes midnight. His expression turned quizzical. "What's so amusing?" Amelia toyed… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
Say something in Mandarin,” said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and consonants… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Those who are talking sharia in Nigeria are really just politicians exploiting what they think is available. But if it should turn… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I said, "I'll take the T-bone steak." A soft voice mooed, "Oh wow." And I looked up and realized The waitress was… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder.… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image