Words matter. These are the best Parrot Quotes from famous people such as Justin Chon, Neil Innes, Alvaro Enrigue, Thomas Carlyle, Steve Irwin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I had a date with a girl I called ‘the parrot.’ All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!
Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.
‘Flaubert’s Parrot’ is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That’s their job. I don’t know why that is. They’ve nearly torn my nose off. I’ve had some really bad parrot bites.
I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don’t have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.
I have an African gray parrot; her name is Eli. We thought she was a boy. And a blue-streaked lory named Marco. He’s 10. And a yellow and green parakeet, Petey. He’s very cute, but he’s getting old.
What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That’s not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn’t work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can’t line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person’s back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we’d go to.
The best match I ever played in was the U.K. championship final against John Parrot in 1992. I won 16-14 and I felt like I could pot anything from anywhere.
I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let’s face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the whole world now. There are probably tribes in the heart of the Papua New Guinean rainforest that know all the words to the Dead Parrot sketch.
I’m a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
