Pigs Quotes - Page 12

• You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

  Barack Obama

  Funny, Sarcastic, Stills

  "US election: Put lipstick on a pig? Obama and McCain both use the expression that set off 'smear' claims" by Daniel Nasaw, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2008.

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• If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.

  Larry McMurtry

  Men, Upset, Mind

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!" And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last.

  Roald Dahl

  House, Pork, Lucky

  Roald Dahl (1995). “Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes”, Puffin

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• I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.

  Vincent Gallo

  Sorry, Apology, Roger

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• I dont know what could possibly distract three pigs enough so that you can get away." Sabrina thought for a moment then grinned. "I know exactly what to do.

  Michael Buckley

  Three, Moments, Enough

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• Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding eye. Like the sun in the sky, Comrade Napoleon! Thou are the giver of All thy creatures love, Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon; Every beast great or small, Sleeps at peace in his stall, Thou watchest over all, Comrade Napoleon! Had I a sucking-pig, Ere he had grown as big Even as a pint bottle or a a rolling-pin He should have learned to be Faithful and true to thee, Yes, his first squeak should be Comrade Napoleon!

  George Orwell

  Sleep, Eye, Fire

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• Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wine, Glasses, Doors

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• No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!

  Lloyd Alexander

  Boys, Matter, Assistants

  Lloyd Alexander (2006). “The Black Cauldron”, p.155, Macmillan

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• Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.

  Shelley Duvall

  Smart, Dirty, Naughty

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• Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly. "I'm glad you're not a guinea pig." "Me, too." I hoped my face wasn't as red as it felt.

  Rick Riordan

  Hug, Red, Faces

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• choose now," he spat, his eyes practically shooing sparks. "me or him." gosh,Fang, you romantic fool," i said sarcastically."howw incredibly sexist pig of you.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Sparks, Fool

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• One night a guy hit his head on a welding gun. He went to his knees. He was bleeding like a pig, blood was oozing out. So I stopped the line for a second and ran over to help him. The foreman turned the line on again, he almost stepped on the guy. That's the first thing they always do. They didn't even call an ambulance. The guy walked to the medic department -- that's about half a mile -- he had about five stitches put in his head. The foreman didn't say anything. He just turned the line on. You're nothing to any of them.

  Studs Terkel

  Gun, Night, Blood

  Studs Terkel (1975). “Working”, HarperCollins

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• A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Thinking

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• And pigs may fly. And we may be able to terraform and send surface populations to Mars. And Jesus may come next week anyway, so it doesn't matter one way or the other. All these crazy things run through people's minds.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Jesus, Crazy

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.

  Colin Powell

  Fun, Dirty, Ends

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• Like anybody else, athletes like to pig out on a bit of junk food every now and then, but they also know that they couldn't do that all the time if they wanted to keep their body in peak condition to compete at the highest level.

  William Katt

  Athlete, Junk, Levels

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• First generation Indian immigrants are mass guinea pigs. When a race that subsisted on plants for centuries subsists on a meat-dominated diet, it scares me to know what's in store for them

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Race, Scare, Firsts

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.

  Phillip Adams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Tombstone

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• I'm always telling the brothers some of those whites are willing to work with us against the pigs. All they got to do is stop talking honky. When the races start fighting, all you have is one maniac group against another.

  George Jackson

  Brother, Fighting, Race

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

  Voltaire

  Years, Should Have, House

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.154, Penguin

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• In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King

  Meat Loaf

  Kings, Land, Butchers

  Song: In The Land Of The Pig, The Butcher Is King, 2006

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• We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.

  Marge Piercy

  Horse, Animal, Pet

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• Process can not be inferred from product any more than a pig can be inferred from a sausage.

  Don Murray

  Sausage, Process, Can Not

  Don Murray (1982). “Learning by Teaching: Selected Articles on Writing and Teaching”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig, but also to render it invisible.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Men, Doctrine, Invisible

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• All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.

  John Updike

  Littles, Pleasure, Pastries

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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