Pigs Quotes - Page 20

• Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!

  Tennessee Williams

  Animal, Monkeys, Instinct

  Tennessee Williams, Tony Kushner (2011). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Art, Museums

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gluttony? I could eat and eat and eat and eat and eat. I'd love to pig out on gluten. I mean, I'm allergic to gluten, but I really want to do that. I want to sit in bed one day and just pig out.

  Naomi Campbell

  Mean, One Day, Bed

  "Edward Enninful And Naomi Campbell On Fashion, Race, Technology, And Sin". Interview with Jonathan Evans, www.esquire.com. June 15, 2016.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Adventure, Army, Islands

  Source: bookpage.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact and comfort. Pigs have a delightful sense of mischief; most of them seem to enjoy a good joke and appreciate music. And that is something you would certainly never suspect from your relationship with a pork chop.

  Sy Montgomery

  Intelligent, Emotional, Appreciate

  12 Copy quote

• First of all, you're improvising through a puppet, so you're not always yourself: you're a cow or you're a pig or you're an old woman, you know, whatever puppet you pick, or you're a demon, you know, whatever you pick up, that's what you get to be in the scene.

  Brian Henson

  Puppets, Cows, Firsts

  Source: bigthink.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm working pretty slowly these days, but most of what it is, or a lot of what it is anyway, is kind of in the vein of "Bay of Pigs". Maybe not all in the same scope, but recorded using the same method and using some of the same sounds, or similar sounds.

  King Khan

  Sound, Veins, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

  Robert Jordan

  Fool, Acorns, Sometimes

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.488, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• President [John F.] Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs, said to Turner Catledge of The New York Times: I wish you had written more, I wish you had investigated more, because it might have saved the country of the cataclysm of the Bay of Pigs.

  Mark Shields

  Country, New York, Wish

  Source: www.pbs.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys go into slaughterhouses alive and come out chopped up into hundreds of pieces, how could anyone claim that animals aren't being mistreated, abused, tortured, terrorized and savagely murdered in these places? How in the world could SLAUGHTERING BILLIONS of INNOCENTS be done with love, humanity and concern?

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Turkeys, Humanity

  75 Copy quote

• Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or guinea pig would pass away, and, after burying the body, I'd dig it back up: over and over, until all that remained was a shoddy pelt. It earned me a certain reputation, especially when I moved on to other people's pets. "Igor," they called me. "Wicked, spooky." But I think my interest was actually fairly common, at least among adolescent boys. At that age, death is something that happens only to animals and grandparents, and studying it is like a science project.

  David Sedaris

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• Irish as a Paddy's pig.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Paddy

  "The Straw". Book by Eugene O'Neill, Act 1, Scene 2, 1919.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dignity, Devotion, Contemplation

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.149, Routledge

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden.

  Saint Augustine

  Dark, Night, Tree

  8 Copy quote

• The last thing in the world someone should do is respond to critics. If I did that I'd be neutered by now--I would be in the nearest insane asylum wearing 15 straitjackets. My whole career has been nothing but: "You shouldn't do it that way, you bigot, you sexist, you homophobe, you pig, you right-wing warmonger, you whatever.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Wings, Careers, Insane

  4 Copy quote

• Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

  John Updike

  Past, Critics, Carts

  14 Copy quote

• I am a pig! I love to eat! i will eat anything! If you put it front of me, I will put it in my mouth, even if it doesn't taste good! And I can't stop eating until all the food is gone. It's probably one of the contributing factors as to why I became a drag queen. I can eat whatever I want, because I can just strap myself into a corset!

  Manila Luzon

  Queens, Gone, Mouths

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Death to the pigs is my basic statement.

  Boots Riley

  Statements

  6 Copy quote

• Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Feet, Morality, Checks

  4 Copy quote

• The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people with liberal arts degrees. The cages brought to mind those labs with their death-fuming vents near my college studio. These kids were part of some great experiment. It was maybe the same one in which I'd once been a subject. Unlike me, though, or the guinea pigs and hares, they were happy, or seemed happy, or were blogging about how they seemed happy.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Art, Kids, College

  Sam Lipsyte (2010). “The Ask: A Novel”, p.187, Macmillan

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

  Jerry Rubin

  Gun, Labels, Revolutionary

  10 Copy quote

• I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wise, Men, Wings

  5 Copy quote

• A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Men, Crowns, Bears

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.77, Usborne Publishing Ltd

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Thinking, Together, Noses

  6 Copy quote

• Love is a pig dressed as a clown sitting in a bath full of beans: pretty much amazing, once you get over the shock.

  Craig Stone

  Love Is, Baths, Sitting

  5 Copy quote