Chickens Quotes - Page 18

• Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.

  Maurice Sendak

  Soup, Rice, Sipping

  Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months (1962)

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• I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Zombie, Good Man, Chinese

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.

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• I make a good fried chicken.

  Norah Jones

  Fried Chicken

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• If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens.

  Celia Imrie

  Mother, Children, Party

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• Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Girl, Queens, Gun

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• Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.

  L. J. Smith

  Mom, Apples, Pie

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• I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Would Be, Fast Food, Knows

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• The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.

  David Mamet

  Home, People, Guy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen.

  Bill Vaughan

  Acumen, Alive, Caught

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• If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.

  Kevin Hart

  Hair, Resemblance Is, Skins

  "Kevin Hart: the Realist Husband of Hollywood". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.

  Arthur M. Jolly

  Cooks, Stills, Feathers

  "A Gulag Mouse". Book by Arthur M. Jolly, 2010.

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• The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.

  Jack Vance

  Latin, Writing, Doctors

  Jack Vance (2007). “The Jack Vance Treasury”, Subterranean

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• Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

  Kirby Larson

  Dream, Sky, Roosters

  Kirby Larson (2013). “Hattie Ever After”, p.156, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• We'll have a different set of values, and society will adapt. That doesn't mean these changes are all good, just because we will accept them. But the 'Chicken Little' view of history isn't correct. Changes take place gradually, and people and institutions adapt.

  Robert Reischauer

  Mean, Views, People

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• The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence.

  George Sarton

  Pie, Way, Absence

  George Sarton (1918). “The Teaching of the History of Science”

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• Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Money, Lying, Hands

  Samuel R. Delany (2011). “Tales of Neveryeon”, p.171, Wesleyan University Press

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• The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

  P. T. Barnum

  Errors, Age, Doe

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.62, Applewood Books

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• Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Baby, Jobs, Cancer

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• As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive austerity package to shock the economy back into recession, and so the odds have always been high that the game of budgetary chicken will stop short of disaster. Looming past the cliff, however, is a deep chasm that poses a much greater challenge -- the retooling of the country's economy, society, and government necessary for the United States to perform effectively in the twenty-first century.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Recovery, Past

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• [Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.

  Plato

  Mother, Plato, Alive

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• In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.

  Mark Twain

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.362, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

  Aesop

  Home, Evil, Wish

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.57, Aesop

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• Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.

  Robert Southey

  Home, Like You, Young

  The Curse of Kehama motto (1810). Geoffrey Chaucer wrote something similar in "The Parson's Tale" (ca. 1387): "And ofte tyme swich cursynge wrongfully retorneth agayn to hym that curseth, as a bryd that retorneth agayn to his owene nest."

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• Supporters of Osama bin Laden want to rename the Arabian Sea after bin Laden's death. They want to call it "Martyr's Sea." Please, hiding in your bedroom for six years with the blinds closed? How about "Chicken of the Sea?

  Jay Leno

  Years, Sea, Want

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• The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.

  Abraham Maslow

  God, Humorous, Silly

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