Ostrich Like Quotes

#1. Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any efforts to solve this problem, will produce an Armageddon in the American population in those states where there is a big problem.

Dianne Feinstein

#2. In fact, I've essentially given up on the idea of flight altogether and accepted that I'm going to be an angel-blood who stays earthbound, a flightless bird, like an ostrich. Maybe, or in this weather, a penguin.

Cynthia Hand

#3. The whole Esther Williams of it all. The ostrich ballet. Like pirouetting feather dusters; their paddle feet in fourth position.

Durga Chew-Bose

#4. No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. You know what it's like, finding eight middle-aged guys having tantric sex with ostriches?

Warren Ellis

#6. There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks.

Susan E. Isaacs

#7. Abraham had almost kissed me.
And I'd kicked him in the crotch.
That was a promising beginning to a ten-year work relationship.

Devon Monk

#8. My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.

Kina Grannis

#9. I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.

Bette Davis

#10. It's like, take my body, fine, I wasn't really using it anyway. I've got this enormous butt on ostrich legs, the hair of a "before" picture, and weird milky brown eyes like a Frappuccino. But not my brain. My true connection to the world.

Lara Avery

#11. I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.

D.H. Lawrence

#12. We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens. I'm prepared to put up with that accusation, because at least my feet aren't killing me and I don't look like a bandy ostrich.

Jo Brand

#13. I shook Obama's hand and I said, 'I want to be your friend.' My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama's enemy, but it's difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don't see it don't want to see it, like the ostrich.

Hugo Chavez

#14. If you stick your head in the sand like an ostrich, pretending you don't exist - why get upset when the world agrees with you/

Christina Engela

#15. When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#16. I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

Lupita Nyong'o

#17. He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.

George Carman

#18. Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.

Georges Rouault

#19. Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.

William Penn

#20. I will endanger your species like an ostrich,
Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage!

Busta Rhymes

#21. I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

Albert Einstein