Quotes About Ostrich

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

What could she do, bound as she was by the tyranny of silence? She dared not explain the girl to herself...that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its own well-being and comfort. The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that seeing nothing it might avoid Truth...if silence is golden it is also in this case, very expedient.

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.

A weapon, I told Horus. I need a weapon. I reached into the Duat and pulled out an ostrich feather. "Really?" I yelled. Horus didn't answer

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.

La táctica del avestruz aplicada a la salud: mete la cabeza en un agujero e ignora lo evidente.

He was about the color, shape, and size of an ostrich-feather duster and suited Garrett much better than either of them suited the décor of her townhouse.

The industry is in an alarming condition. And we only have ourselves to blame. If one thriller runs, we all run to make thrillers. What about the dozen thrillers that flopped before that? More than the herd mentality it is the ostrich mentality.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

My Lord Bedlington had not kept company with the Regent for years without acquiring a hard head and the digestion of an ostrich. Mellow he might become, and indiscreet stories he certainly told, but not his worst enemy would have accused him of being foxed.

I think lots of men have an ostrich-like mentality regarding their health and general appearance. There is always tomorrow.

Pliny suggested that the ostrich, then newly discovered, was the result of a cross between a giraffe and a gnat. (It would, I suppose, have to be a female giraffe and a male gnat.) In practice there must be many such crosses which have not been attempted because of a certain understandable lack of motivation.

Confronted by something she couldn't explain, she pretended it wasn't there. Dude, ostrich much?

My old friend Pliny, not long before Vesuvius put an end to him, wrote that the ostrich hides its head in a bush when attacked and thinks its whole body is concealed," said Martial. "See how the attendants have placed bits of shrubbery all around the arena, so that the bird may demonstrate its foolish behavior?

Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

if I was a painter, and was to paint the American Eagle, how should I do it?...I should want to draw it like a Bat, for its short-sightedness; like a Bantam. for its bragging; like a Magpie, for its honesty; like a Peacock, for its vanity; like an Ostrich, for putting its head in the mud, and thinking nobody sees it -' ...'And like a Phoenix, for its power of springing from the ashes of its faults and vices, and soaring up anew into the sky!

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her

I shook Obama's hand and I said, 'I want to be your friend.' My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama's enemy, but it's difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don't see it don't want to see it, like the ostrich.

I ate ostrich. I'm not very proud of it. I was going through a very experimental period and probably during foot and mouth. It was exquisite, but I felt very guilty.

You're just the same, David. You don't like talking about anything unpleasant." " Who does! " I exclaimed. " But it's like an ostrich, burying its head in the sand! " " Not really," I said thoughtfully. " It's better to be happy and think of nice things instead of being miserable and worrying over nasty things.

An ostrich egg is bigger than its brain.

Personally, I felt yoga was something to retreat from, not toward, so the mental image involved me sitting cross-legged with an open book in my lap while everyone else did the Spread-Eagle Ostrich.