Armadillos Quotes

• The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

  Jim Hightower

  Yellow, Political, Lines

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• Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.

  Will Cuppy

  Science, Owning A Pet, Adorable

  "How to Get from January to December". Book by Will Cuppy, 1951.

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• The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

  Jim Hightower

  Government, Hotel Lobby, Corporations

  "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". Book by Greg Palast, p. 141, 2002.

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• You know, sometimes you can't just take an armadillo, put it in the barn, light it on fire and expect it to make licorice.

  Dana Carvey

  Light, Fire, Barns

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• Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

  Jim Hightower

  Boys, Agriculture, Littles

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• What joy when the insouciant
  armadillo glances at us and doesn't
  quicken his trotting
  across the track into the palm brush.
  What is this joy? That no animal
  falters, but knows what it must do?

  Denise Levertov

  Animal, Track, Joy

  Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Sound

  "Tinselworm". World Tour, 2008.

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• In the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted leaves and the cries and chatter of blue jays and brown thrashers and redbirds and sparrows, the calling of crows and hawks, squirrels barking, frogs burping, the far braying of dogs, armadillos snorkeling through dead leaves.

  Tom Franklin

  Dog, Squirrels, Blue

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• Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.

  Sherman Alexie

  Men, Ideas, No Idea

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Reservation Blues: A Novel”, p.178, Open Road Media

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• A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Artist, Lovely

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.303, Penguin

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• If you ask my dad for help... he'll help. Like a vulture helps an over-run armadillo on a Texas highway. One peck at the time.

  Christopher Titus

  Running, Dad, Texas

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

  Lee Child

  Knows, Smarter

  Lee Child (2010). “Lee Child's Jack Reacher”, p.2263, Penguin

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• Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

  Jim Hightower

  Political, Politics, Bottom

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• While other guitars may have more twang or an esoteric atmosphere, the Les Paul is like a T-Rex thampling everything in it's path .. it can be subtle if you want it to be, but it works best if you have an 'armadillo in your trousers' and you want to articulate that

  Miles Zuniga

  Music, Guitar, Atmosphere

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• I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Shopping, Way, Purses

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Khufu carefully picked out everything that ended with-o—Doritos, Oreos, and some chunks of meat. Buffalo? Armadillo? I was scared to even ask.

  Rick Riordan

  Khufu, Meat, Oreos

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.257, Penguin UK

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