Well, I play Jews and parrots. Parrots are how I've branched out. — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
If they'd wanted a nice parrot, they wouldn't have asked for me. — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots. — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. — Neil Innes Copy Share Image
Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
I have two dogs and a parrot, so they require a lot of attention. They deserve it. — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness. — P. W. Botha Copy Share Image
I think my wife is cheating on me, the only thing the parrot knows how to say is, quick out the window. — Rodney Dangerfield 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
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
A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading… — Shoshannah Stern 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
“She put him near the front door and a number of visitors were surprised that he would not answer to the name… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not—which is why St. Augustine thanked God… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being… — R. Buckminster Fuller 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
I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’… — Theodore Roosevelt 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 want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I think a cute movie idea would be about a parrot who is raised by eagles. It would be cute because the… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord'… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“A third principal states that the more intense the interaction between a student and its models, the more effective the training. Intensity… — Irene M. Pepperberg Copy Share Image
To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only… — William Tecumseh Sherman 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
Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of… — Carol Birch Copy Share Image