Quotes of: Parrots Keyword

Sqwaak!" from Fletcher, the environmental crime fighting parrot in The Big Belch graphic novel by Kay Wood.

Kay Wood

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

Robert Kiyosaki

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.

Steve Irwin

Senior Ed Bloom: I don't know if you're aware of this, Josephine, but African parrots, in their native home of the Congo, they speak only French. Josephine: Really? Senior Ed Bloom: You're lucky to get four words out of them in English, but if you we...

Big Fish

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

Flaubert's Parrot

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

Flaubert's Parrot

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Flaubert's Parrot

WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

Flaubert's Parrot

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.

Flaubert's Parrot

Between an action and reaction, between a gesture and its consequences, everybody agrees that there is an exact relationship, but not necessarily a proportionate one.

The Parrots

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Mark Twain

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Parrot: Shiver me timbers. Mr. Gibbs: Cotton 'ere says you missed a bit.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Flaubert's Parrot

He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

Flaubert's Parrot

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

Flaubert's Parrot

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

The Shadow of the Wind

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Under Western Eyes

India was a sensation. It was remarkable to see all those parrots flying about, the brilliant foliage and the brilliant sky. It was a tremendous pageant. I never noticed the poverty.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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