Pigeons Quotes - Page 5

• Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.

  John Ray

  Children, Peas, Please

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.236

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• Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.

  P. C. Cast

  Ravens, Bats, Care

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.61, Macmillan

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• There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

  Charles Stross

  War, Believe, Writing

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• I used to have lots of tigers. I had all sorts of exotic pets when I had some money. Before I was broke, I had everything. Pigeons and vultures, lions, tigers, and bears. I had it all.

  Mike Tyson

  Pet, Exotic, Lions

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My publishing deal is out of Nashville, my management is split between Nashville and Texas, but we are also getting to play eight other states as well as Canada and Europe this year. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself. When people ask me if I'm Texas or Nashville, I tell them I am just Cody Johnson.

  Cody Johnson

  Eight, Texas, Nashville

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• I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Oxford, Topshop, Ferrets

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

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• I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

  Colin Quinn

  New York, People, Comedian

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• He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.

  Libba Bray

  Thinking, Feet, Heroic

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• At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger pigeon. Ralph Nader was at full cry, ringing his tocsin of automobile doom into the brains of the public, convincing them that the lump of chrome and iron in the driveway was as lethal as a dose of Strontium 90 or a blast from a Viet Cong AK-47.

  Brock Yates

  Ak 47, Iron, Car

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• [Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

  Albert Camus

  Dirty, Cities, Paris

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• This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.

  Coolio

  Food, Cooking, Meat

  Coolio (2009). “Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other...but we need that money.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Years

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• His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Food, Shadow

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• Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

  Bryan Callen

  Letters, Messages, Text Message

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• I am real, real picky with what I decided to do. I want to make sure it's new and at the same time that it's in the same color of what I have played before. Not to pigeon hole myself but I don't like to do fluff.

  Ryan Hurst

  Real, Color, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.

  Ted Hughes

  Voice, World, Woods

  1967 'Stealing Trout on a May Morning'.

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• I zoomed in on the shoe department like a blonde homing pigeon. Shoes, shoes everywhere! Ah, sweet shoes. I truly think you can take the measure of a civilization by looking at its footwear.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Sweet, Thinking, Civilization

  MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unemployed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.26, Penguin

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• I'm character-driven. If it's a great character and something different; because I find that a lot of the times you do get pigeon-holed, you do get the same characters over and over again because that's what producers are comfortable with. They've seen you do it, they know you can do it. I'm kind of getting a little stir crazy.

  A. J. Cook

  Crazy, Character, Different

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

  Doseone

  Character, Independent, Artist

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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• There are bugs and there are the pigeons and other predators, but you shouldn't be afraid of them, because this is how nature works.

  Bette Midler

  Predator, Bugs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair. He's very fragile. You better watch out.

  Mark Zupan

  Guy, Watches, Want

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• What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.

  Andrew Bird

  Museums, Bird, Paradise

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Reality, Two

  Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ch. 21 (1948)

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• [Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets - and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.

  Beryl Markham

  Gun, Winning, One Direction

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• I have worried about getting pigeon-holed, but now I think I've done enough weird, offbeat stuff not to be. And I also know that I do things for the right reasons: I've made my money, so I don't have to say yes to anything.

  Christopher Meloni

  Thinking, Done, Stuff

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