Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“There can be no question that parrots have more intellect than any other kind of bird, and it is this that makes them such…

— E.H. Aitken

“I am ignorant of how I was formed and how I was born. Through a quarter of my lifetime I was absolutely ignorant of…

— Voltaire

“various marvels concerning parrots, and mines, and Mexicans,”

— Charles Dickens

“Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine: a group of explorers came upon a community of parrots speaking…

— Rana Dasgupta

“The human bird shall take his first flight,filling the words with amazement,all writings with his fame,and bringing eternal glory to those whose nest whence…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“What’s missing from the literature of our species are the stories of the peasants. The filthy illiterate. Those with no firm address, no surname.…

— Gregory Maguire

“A cockroach stepped out from behind the ketchup, gave me a quick impassive once-over, decided that I was of the Brahmin faith, and walked…

— Ross Macdonald

“You have brought your bird with you, I suppose?” said Mr. Jarndyce. “By heaven, he is the most astonishing bird in Europe!” replied the…

— Charles Dickens

“Do the chickens have large talons?”

— Napoleon Dynamite

“The parrot eyed me cautiously, like he was forming a vague memory of unhappier times, before Jimmy Buffett and ganja. "Noisy bastard," he decided.”

— Rick Riordan

“though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken?”

— Lorrie Moore

“This was in [Orwell's] 1946 'Politics and the English Language,' an essay that despite its date (and its title's basic redundancy) remains the definitive…

— David Foster Wallace