Parakeet Quotes

#1. 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.

Roz Chast

#2. Alfred T. Slipper was a janitor. Most of the time (often, in fact) they treated him with disdain. They had no idea of the astonishing acts of heroism, the blinding light, contained within his outward humdrum disguise.
Only Alfred's parakeet, Dolores, knew who he was and what he could do.

Kate DiCamillo

#3. On top of all that, look at this guy? I mean he's a idiot, he's 7 feet of pure idiot. You put his brain in a parakeet ... zing! It'll fly backwards.

Dwayne Johnson

#4. Tom Ridge now says we don't have to run out and put plastic sheets all over the house. Great, tell that to my dead parakeet.

Craig Kilborn

#5. You might be a redneck if your parakeet knows the phrase Open up, Police!

Jeff Foxworthy

#6. Kilgore Trout owned a parakeet named Bill. Like Dwayne Hoover, Trout was all alone at night, except for his pet. Trout, too, talked to his pet. But while Dwayne babbled to his Labrador retriever about love, Trout sneered and muttered to his parakeet about the end of the world.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet ... oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool.

Anthony Jeselnik

#8. Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.

Christopher Cokinos

#9. Above the forest of the parakeets,
A parakeet of parakeets prevails,
A pip of life amid a mort of tails.

Wallace Stevens

#10. Sissy Hankshaw once taught a parakeet to hitchhike.

Tom Robbins

#11. Be happy because you are enjoying the most amazing miracle called life.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.

Andrew Weil

#13. I/O-bound programs are constrained by data access. These are programs where adding more processing power or RAM often makes little difference.

Jim R. Wilson

#14. I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill

Kara Walker

#15. I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing.

Robertson Davies

#16. Newaygo County, Michigan, is a strangely beautiful, yet almost fearful land. Its muscular forests flex around sodden lowlands.

John H. Timmerman

#17. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness and strength.

Louisa May Alcott

#18. I left my fingerprints somewhere - that's good enough. I am my own person - that's good enough. I stand my ground - that's good enough.

Steven Morrissey

#19. You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a line from the show and you both start laughing.

Eric Andre