Top 101 Pig Quotes

Paris’s neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl – a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig’s tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.

The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.

Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain’t eatin’.

From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus.

The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: ‘Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?’

I’m a selfish, little pig of a man.

I’ve always put my horses, dogs, and pig before my own needs, so I was well prepared to put my son first. I’m used to waking up in the middle of the night… no matter how tired I am, jumping up to take care of my animals. Now, I do the same for my son.

I know we don’t all follow in the family footsteps, but you are, I suppose, more likely to consider becoming a butcher if you have spent your childhood watching a parent debone a pig.

The first thing I heard when I got in the business – not from my mentor – was, ‘Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered.’ I’m here to tell you I was a pig. And I strongly believe the only way to make long-term returns in our business that are superior is by being a pig.

I am a human guinea pig and a professional dilettante.

Tanushree Dutta is the real pig and not me. She is the sewer and not me. Just look at her face, she has become like a fat ugly buffalo.

We’re going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that’s part of my job. I don’t mind being a human guinea pig.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

Pepper spray, a Taser, a suckling pig and a self-built motorized spit. It’s a perfect Thanksgiving, ‘MythBusters’-style.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

I’ve had a lot of great stuff – spectacular stuff – happen to me. I’ve got to not be a pig about life.

The first things I made were absolute pig’s ears. I didn’t understand about facings, or finishings, or anything.

I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass speakers.

All chefs have pictures of food in their phones, stuffed pig’s ears and pigs’ heads and the like.

In the Dobbsian view of America, the mainstream media isn’t evil because it’s liberal but because it’s lazy. And Washington is utterly corrupt, has sold out, Democrats and Republicans alike. And corporate America is an insatiable pig.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn’t a vegetable without a little ham hock.

Soros has taught me that when you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig. It takes courage to ride a profit with huge leverage.

My cat does this thing where he’s so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.

We overweight people, we say terrible things to ourselves. Oh, you wouldn’t believe it. ‘You fat pig. How can you do this? You’re a disgusting jerk.’ And that gets you nowhere. That gets you right back into a bowl of pasta fregula.

I’d rather be onstage with a pig – a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain’t going to happen.

My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I’m not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.

Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can’t wait to get to work in the morning. I’ve got steady jobs, I’ve got my health, and I’m here in the greatest city in the world. I’d be a pig not to be grateful.

And call me a pig, but isn’t it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they’re still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they’re hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.

People need to seek out some diversity in their life. One of my friends is a pig farmer in Michigan, and even she has black friends. She’s in the middle of nowhere – the closest airport is, like, three hours away – and she manages to connect with black people.

I guess the big thing to say about ‘Pig Farm’ is that none of us knows if it works, and we’re going in blind. It’s in the tradition of ‘Urinetown,’ kind of – but that’s a pretty small tradition. It’s possible that it can fail.

If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

I think most people don’t even know what ‘woo pig sooie’ is if they’re not a sports fan or they’re not from Arkansas.

To be accused of ignoring my roots is pig ignorant.

The Pork Marketing Board worked with advertising and marketing firms to position the pig as a sort of four-legged chicken – a healthy part of any low-fat lifestyle. The Other White Meat campaign launched in 1987 and was so successful at selling lean pork cuts, it actually hurt the rest of the pig.

Comedy chose me. I always had this urge to be silly that I couldn’t control. I remember my father having me read ‘The Three Little Pigs’ to him, and I would improv all around the story, like when one pig’s house got blown over, he put on his gym shoes and took off.

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else’s door. Because I don’t want the remnants. I don’t want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

When people are taking something extremely seriously, that’s the time to take out the pig’s bladder.

I eat like a pig. Tripe is the only thing I won’t eat.

I love pigs. I think they’re very cute. I really want a pet pig, but those micro pigs, they don’t stay micro.

Stop allowing yourself to focus on depressing life circumstances – including focusing on being depressed about your weight. All this negative focus will only lead you to feeling bummed and wanting to pig out. Instead, consciously focus on happy life circumstances you enjoy doing, and create more of them!

One thing people would be surprised to know about me: I have a mean roundhouse kick. And my guilty pleasure? Deep fried pig ears!

I used to have a potbelly pig named Terrance. He died of obesity.

I look like that in the morning: my hair’s all greasy – it’s not, ‘Hey, look at the babe of the band!’ I hate that kind of thing, the way women are always pushed forward as beauties… it’s very easy: you can make the ugliest pig look lovely in a photograph.

I love food. I’m a huge food addict. I think in my past life I was a pig or something like that, but I love eating; I never stop eating.

The ‘classic’ pig is inspired by northern Italy. It is made up of meat and fat, rosemary and garlic, salt and lots of black pepper.

Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.

Just in terms of when I got the script, the character I probably liked the least was Big Foster. Because even though he was central to the story and to that world, he was really written to be kind of a brute, a pig, a completely black-and-white bad guy.

There’s something on Wall Street called PIG – panic, ignorance, and greed. Those are the big sins. I’m not greedy, I knew I was ignorant, and I didn’t panic.

Gorillas have a belch vocalization, which is sort of like, ‘I’m OK, you’re OK.’ They do a pig grunt, which is reprimanding. They sing, they laugh, and they hoot, which grows into a chest-beating display.

I’ve always been like a guinea pig when it comes to health trends.

If I was a pig to work with I would never get asked back.

CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.

At the time when I was conducting my research there was no known method for taking the guinea pig’s temperature. I demonstrated a technique which is now widely used.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!