I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents. — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots. — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
When I came to the United States in 1975 I was eleven, and within a few months my voice broke. I recited… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. — Neil Innes Copy Share Image
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes… — Marat Safin Copy Share Image
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards. — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
