Pigeon Quotes - page 2

A pigeon a day keeps the natives away. (Arthur Ransome)
Not only is she obsessed with fur, she also collects clothes, houses, land, islands, and, above all, diamonds. Lots of diamonds. Big ones. The biggest are the size of pigeon eggs, and she's already wearing them for breakfast. I feel sorry for her. She'd give it all up just to be a couple of years younger. View quote
Klaus Kinski
Before, when I was covering the war in Vietnam and Cambodia, we used to have what I call the three Ss. You would shoot a story, you would script a story, which is to write it and then ship the story. And if you were in Cambodia you'd go to the airport and try to find a pigeon to carry it out for you. Someone who was leaving Cambodia to go to either Bangkok or Saigon or Hong Kong because there wasn't the satellite technology. There was no uplinks then. Today, the second major change is also in personnel. Today you have so much satellite coverage you can report live why from a battlefield. Before you were often there just by yourself. Now you're likely to be with 20 other reporters. I just think there's more people out there covering the same story and covering it in a very different way because of the technological advances. View quote
Ed Bradley
Consider the pigeon just a pigeon...There are lots of pigeons in Paris. View quote
Michael Haneke
Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves. View quote
Brandon Mull
A crossbow?” Pigeon asked. I left my battle-ax in my other jeans,” the man said. View quote
Brandon Mull
Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue. View quote
Doyle Brunson
I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge. View quote
Archie Panjabi
I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes. View quote
Ashley Madekwe
Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon. View quote
Bud Abbott
I always sang when I was little-bitty girl. I sang all the time. And then I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee, so I sang in a show at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. You know, they have all those variety shows where Dollywood is. And I sang there and yodeled and clogged, but I never wrote my own songs. (Ashley Monroe)
Though the large runt pigeon, with its massive beak and its huge feet, differs from its blue and barred progenitor the rock, it is a pigeon still. View quote
David Brewster
A pasty costly made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks; Imbedded and injellied. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
I call this "Ode to a Pigeon": Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, You lookin' at me? You lookin' at me?! View quote
Darby Conley
Like a trembling hind pursued by a Hyrcanian tigress, or like a pigeon that checks her flight when she sees a hawk in the sky, or like a hare that dives into the thicket at sight of the eagle hovering with outstretched wings in the cloudless sky. View quote
Silius Italicus
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. View quote
Libba Bray
When the Rothchilds got the word about the battle of Waterloo - in the movie it was by carrier pigeon - they didn't rush down and buy British consols, the government bonds. They rushed in and sold, and then, in the panic, they bought. View quote
George Goodman
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere. View quote
Jim Hightower
And there it is, the international symbol of peace – the pigeon! (Jimmy Magee)
Today's American bemoans the extermination of the passenger pigeon and the threatened extinction of the whooping crane and the ivory billed woodpecker; he contributes to conservation organizations that seek to preserve the Hawaiian goose, the sea otter of the Aleutian Islands, the lizard of the Galapágos Islands... But who ever shed a tear over the loss of the native American cultures? View quote
Peter Farb
These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
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. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Because arguing with racist people is like playing chess with a pigeon: It doesn't matter how good you are! The pigeon is going to knock all the pieces down and shit on the board and parade around like he's won. (the "Playing chess with pigeons..." statement is not something that originated with Eric Cantona but was first created by an Amazon product reviewer and is often repeated by others, per Snopes.) View quote
Eric Cantona