Lack of understanding Quote by George Orwell

“The early bird ate too many worms and died.”

— Andre Jordan

“It was as if the birds were caught in the repetition of some primal trauma, stuck between what they had and what they wanted.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“In this transparency, the footprints of the little birds spoke with a muffled voice. What they spoke of was entirely without significance, or else…

— Alessandro Baricco

“They gulped, those stupid birds; they ate from the bag and they swallowed with glee. And they choked on giant mouthfuls of my shit.…

— Garth Stein

“They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a way to eat out its heart…

— Yukio Mishima

“They were in a trench sliding through a forest of corn. Machine stood over the rows, black girders that arced in the sky like…

— Joe Hill

“If those birds hadn't been so stupid, so incapable of learning that human beings were dangerous, the first settlers would almost certainly have starved…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Birds ate my face.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“People kill over the most ridiculous things. A careless word. Or poultry.”

— Faiqa Mansab

“I guessed it was a migratory bird, too innocent to be wary of the spiders in the jungle grass. It worried be to think…

— Paul Theroux

“A substance so far beyond their ken that they might have been carrion birds pecking at the eyes of god.”

— Laini Taylor

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

— Lorrie Moore