Pigeons Quotes - Page 4

• Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Bible, Pygmalion, Native Language

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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• The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all songs about food are double entendres for sex... Well, maybe all songs about food can be double entendres, but in many periods of Cuban history, for many people, food has been harder to get, and the subject of more fantasies, than sex.

  Ned Sublette

  Song, Sex, Thinking

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• I don't go to the gym or practice yoga. And the closest thing I have to a nutritionist is the Carlsberg Beer Company. I just have the appetite of a pigeon.

  Colin Farrell

  Yoga, Beer, Practice

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• I already shred all my mail. What am I supposed to do now? Use pay phones? Smoke signals? Train pigeons? There's no such thing as privacy anymore.

  Dennis Adams

  Phones, Pay, Mail

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• I was so urban-centric once. I did not want to see a patch of grass. I did not want to look at a tree. I didn't want to be anywhere near a sparrow, or a squirrel, or a pigeon, because I just wanted to be consumed by the asphalt-jungle aspect of New York.

  Carlos Dengler

  New York, Squirrels, Tree

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.

  Terry Pratchett

  White, Magic, Three

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.

  Rose Macaulay

  May, Return, Faithfulness

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• We all get pigeon-holed or put in a box, no matter what that might be.

  Justin Hartley

  Might, Matter, Boxes

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.

  Ray Davies

  Mirrors, Clothes, Low Self Esteem

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• The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fear, Real, New Experiences

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics.

  Woody Allen

  Believe, People, Catholic

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• Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

  Brandon Mull

  Trying, Slave, Mindless

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• It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Pie, People, Matter

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room.

  Erica Jong

  Journey, Sea, Cities

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• I just don't have the desire no more, I don't have the stomach to do it no more. I don't even kill insects in my house. I just don't kill anything no more. I used to kill pigeons, rip their heads off, 'You dirty rat pigeon!' I don't even have the heart to kill an animal no more. I just changed my whole life in general. That probably could have changed the way I fight.

  Mike Tyson

  Rip, Dirty, Heart

  "Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust". Interview with Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.

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• I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies.

  Denis Leary

  Drama, Hollywood, Able

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• Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Opportunity, Productive Work

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.179, Pantheon

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• If you're not careful people will judge you based on these appearances and they will pigeon hole you that this is the person that you are. Your shy, your aggressive, your this type or that type and you lose the control of the dynamic, they become the ones that determine who you are. A powerful person never loses control of the dynamic they are in someway in control.

  Robert Greene

  Powerful, People, Judging

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Bird, Racing, Kind

  "Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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• The most exciting thing in England is a pigeon or foxes, which isn't very interesting to watch because everyone knows what they do. But I've taken pictures of them. Just for practice.

  Asa Butterfield

  Taken, Practice, Interesting

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• It was so hot today I saw a robin dipping his worm in Nestea.It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles.It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself.

  Johnny Carson

  Kings, Singing, Shadow

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• I rode Sea Pigeon in all his work - that's why my arms are so long.

  Mark Birch

  Horse, Sea, Long

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• When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Islamic, Angel, Stories

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• We all have our demons to deal with, Little Pigeon. It's when we cherish them - cradle them to our breasts and feed them, day after day-that's when they curdle our souls.

  Susan Fletcher

  Soul, Littles, Demon

  Susan Fletcher (1999). “Shadow spinner”

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• All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

  Alan Coren

  Bird, Sparrows, Knows

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