Bird Quote by William Morris Hunt

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

— John Simm

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches…

— Aldous Huxley

“Birds are and always have been reincarnated old men with Tourette's syndrome having somehow managed to dupe the reproductive saga. They fuck each other…

— Kurt Cobain

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

— Rebecca West

“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

Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.

— Dale Carnegie

The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time. But in…

— Richard Siken

On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder,…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

Critics should be looked at simply as commentators.

— Twyla Tharp

I'm not naive and realise it doesn't make good commentary or sell newspapers if you only say nice things, and the time does come…

— Nasser Hussain

The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on…

— Oscar Wilde

I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what…

— Duke Ellington