Quotes About Parrot

I've heard a tape of collected kakapo noises, and it's almost impossible to believe that it all just comes from a bird, or indeed any kind of animal. Pink Floyd studio out-takes perhaps, but not a parrot.

In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

While discussing the monster: It sounds like the combination of water being poured into a glass, Miss Hawkline said, A dog barking and the muttering of a drunk parrot. And very, very loud. I think we're going to need the shotgun for this one, Cameron said.

The parrot/writer feebly accepts language as something received, imitative and inert

cambio, es como un loro que salta de rama en rama y parlotea a la vista de todos.» Gustave se imaginaba que era una fiera salvaje: le encantaba pensar que era un oso polar, remoto, silvestre y solitario. Yo acepté esta idea suya, y hasta le dije que era un búfalo salvaje de las praderas americanas; pero es posible que no fuera más que un loro.

de sus acreedores, su madre no tuvo más remedio que vender algunas tierras. ¡Quinientos francos en guantes! ¿El oso blanco con guantes blancos? Qué va, qué va; más bien el loro enguantado.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards.

God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.

I bought myself a parrot, but it did not say "I'm hungry", and so it died.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Psittacus vbs alirum nmina discam: Hoc didic per m dcere, "Caesar, hav!

If she imagined God at all, it was as a vague entity that hung around behind her left shoulder, rather like a nagging parrot.

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!" He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mockingbird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence.

So pester'd with a popinjay.

Aan de andere kant van de tafel sloeg de papegaai krijsend met zijn vleugels en slingerde een stroom vloekwoorden naar de kat.

If a writer manages to be fascinating about his own novels, then there are only two possibilities: either he is merely voicing out loud what he wrote in his book, and he is a parrot; or he is explaining interesting things that he didn't discuss in his book, in which case the book in question is a failure since it does not live up to its claims.

A parrot," he said, "is a tropical zygodactyl bird (order psittaciformes) that has a stout curved hooked bill, is often crested, brightly variegated, and an excellent mimic. In other words, Harold, a parrot is a little bird with a big mouth.

Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him a disturbing fury. People, a lot them, don't understand fury. They understand anger and even hatred, but fury is one of those old words that have gone out of style. Jimmy Jim Bundrum understood it. It rode his shoulder like a parrot.

I like my parrot, Figaro. Not in a wrong way I mean, yes, hell do anything for a mouth full of seed but nothing tacky.

The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know?

Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!

Inside, the animals greeted her. A parrot that had arrived that week, cage and all, squawked at her. The dogs---four of them now---launched into happy yips. One of the cats that had shown up on the porch rubbed itself against her legs. "Oh God, I'm Dr. Dolittle," Leeda said out loud.