Chickens Quotes - Page 12

• Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

  Alan Bradley

  Toil, Vineyards, Chemistry

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.240, Delacorte Press

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• The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Hippie, Iguanas, People

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• This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why don’t you turn him in? And the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. Well I guess that’s pretty much how I feel about relationships. You know they’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd but I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Brother, Crazy

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• There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

  Annie Dillard

  Generations, Heroic, Pure

  Annie Dillard (2010). “For the Time Being”, p.70, Vintage

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• Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Running, Stronger, Tests

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Midnighters #3: Blue Noon”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• I don't eat chicken abortions!

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Abortion

  Cecily Von Ziegesar (2003). “You Know You Love Me: A Gossip Girl Novel”, p.153, A&C Black

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• NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.

  Rachael Ray

  Space, Fake, Desire

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• America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

  Eric Ripert

  America, Comfort, Melting

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• I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.

  Ben Stein

  Eggs, Shopping, Insane

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• I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.

  Curtis Stone

  Monday, Thinking, Vegetables

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• The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread!" he screamed. CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. Rice!" PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs." Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried. YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!

  John Green

  Cheer, Together, Hips

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.40, Penguin

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• The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.

  Neal Stephenson

  Kentucky, Judging, Noon

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.102, Spectra

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• Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we’re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until we’re standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Summer, Running, Home

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• ... and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.

  Shannon Hale

  Real, Lasts, Poor

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.147, A&C Black

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• I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.

  Ellen Barkin

  Night, Oatmeal, Long

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• Leo drummed his fingers. “Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.” Hazel frowned. “What is a chicken nugget?” “Oh, man…” Leo shook his head in amazement. “That's right. You’ve missed the last, like, seventy years. Well, my apprentice, a chicken nugget—” “Doesn’t matter,” Annabeth interrupted.

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Should Have, Years

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• Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.

  Michael Pollan

  Yield, Turkeys, America

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• The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's. I'm on the expensive shutters of the health food store. I'm massive on Handie's furniture shop, King's Chicken Joint and the Barbecue Cafe. I thread the pavement outside the bank and all the way to Mothercare. I've possessed the road and am a glistening circle at the roundabout.

  Jenny Downham

  Kings, Sleep, Circles

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• When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

  Robert Lanza

  Animal, Smell, Kitchen

  "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding" by Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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• How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Abortion, Religion

  "Back in Town". Documentary, Comedy, 1996.

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• I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken Catastrophe and Eggs Overwhelming and a tall, cool Janitor-in-a-Drum. I like to walk out of a restaurant with enough gas to open a Mobil station.

  Tom Waits

  Eggs, Oil, Personality

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• They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life n' good health, n' passin' six weeks tests...these are real valuable to somebody.

  Harper Lee

  Strong, Real, Good Luck

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• Yes I remember my sixteenth." Vitellius said "Wonderful omen! Happily chicken in my underpants." "Excuse me.

  Rick Riordan

  Remember, Wonderful, Excuse

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• England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

  Kage Baker

  Kings, Wife, England

  Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.60, Macmillan

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• I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Enough Said, Thrones, Purses

  "A Conspiracy of Kings". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2010.

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