Parrot Quotes
78 quotes by 65 authors
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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.
— Sandra Cisneros
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The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot…
— Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison
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It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that hardly deserves the…
— Gottlob Frege
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All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled foliage struggling along…
— Rex Ingamells
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My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a…
— W. P. Kinsella
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Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the…
— Kinky Friedman
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The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not—which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making…
— Carl Jung
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I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes to the monkey…
— Marat Safin
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Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like…
— Milan Kundera
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Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds,…
— Sakya Pandita
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No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern…
— Roger Penrose
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Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as…
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.
— Billy Sunday
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The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it…
— John Ramsay McCulloch
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In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me-basic cable's second most popular fake…
— Stephen Colbert
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I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats, as well as…
— Julia Glass
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I think a cute movie idea would be about a parrot who is raised by eagles. It would be cute because the parrot can't seem…
— Jack Handey
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I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF!
— Jack Handey
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I think when you go on trial they should have a parrot there that says guilty or not guilty for you, as a sort of…
— Jack Handey
Who Wrote These Parrot Quotes
65 authors contributed a total of 78 Parrot Quotes, led by these top contributors: