Platypus Quotes

• Do you think God gets stoned? I think so ... look at the platypus.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Robin Williams's best-loved gags" by Richard Vine, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2014.

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• I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

  Trevor Dunn

  Bird, Lizards, Swimmer

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• Take the platypus - that is not a finished product. It is clearly still in beta.

  Stephen Colbert

  Beta, Stills, Products

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• Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

  Trevor Dunn

  Obsession, Obsessed, Collecting

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• In case you were wondering, my spirit animal is a duck billed platypus.

  Creed Bratton

  Animal, Ducks, Spirit

  Twitter post from Apr 04, 2013

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• You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.

  Umberto Eco

  Falling In Love, Love You, Love Is

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.

  John Green

  Hands, Ducks, Together

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.105, Penguin

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• A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

  Dean Young

  Iron, Odd, Should

  Dean Young (2002). “Skid”, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Party, Cutting, Circles

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

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• Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?

  Jessica Simpson

  "Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica". www.imdb.com. 2003 - 2005.

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• You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Character, Brain, Rabbits

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