Quotes About Parroting

You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot.

I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!

till she found herself saying the words and singing the responses like a parrot.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

Like many nerdy youngsters I spent much of my childhood listening to Monty Python records, learning them verbatim, fittingly parroting them.

pisseur de copie

Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person's back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.

One reason alone is enough for today, and that reason lies in the national misconception of what constitutes education. All of your lives you have been trained to believe that your mental equipment consisted of learning how to memorize a multitude of facts. This is what I call parroting a man. To my mind, this inadequate concept of education is the crime of the age.

He wasn't a man, but a tape recorder, repeating catch phrases and old slogans without any thought to the concepts behind them, a dog stuck in the training of his youth and faithfully executing his tasks long after his master had moved on.

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

You didn't even know my name, I thought. You're just repeating what he said.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.