quotes about Parrots
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You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot.
-- Angie Sage -
The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion
-- Bobby Gould -
I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
-- Brion James -
Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke -
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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.
-- Mark Twain -
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.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
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Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.
-- Neil InnesSource : "Bonzo Dog Band". Interview with Richie Unterberger, www.furious.com. January 2001.
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I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.
-- Sandra Cisneros -
I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.
-- Stella GibbonsSource : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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If they'd wanted a nice parrot, they wouldn't have asked for me.
-- Gilbert Gottfried -