Quotes of: Guinea Keyword

I have a cat. When I was younger, I had a guinea pig.

Alison Goldfrapp

When you cook a guinea fowl, the partridge gets a headache.

Nigerian

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

No guinea of earned money should go to rebuilding the college on the old plan just as certainly none could be spent upon building a college upon a new plan: therefore the guinea should be earmarked "Rags. Petrol. Matches." And this note should be att...

Three Guineas

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

Cornelia Funke

I'm some sort of guinea pig in a home economics crash course for werewolves.

The Night Has Teeth

Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of asshole doesn't like pancakes?

The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...

Revolution in Guinea: Selected Texts

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

John L. Phillips

If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship o...

The Bell Jar

The Bible's "it's better to give than receive" was not the raving of a lunatic. It goes back to a recurring theme that I've found in almost all my experiments: behaviour shapes your thoughts. My brain sees me giving a gift to Julie. My brain conclude...

The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment

Mrs Guinea answered my letter and invited me to lunch at her home. That was where I saw my first finger-bowl. The water had a few cherry blossoms floating in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit...

The Bell Jar

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.

David Lange

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

Juan Cole

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

Marilu Henner

Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.

Salma Hayek

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

Nat King Cole