Top 34 Quotes About Canaries
#1. Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.
Richard Dawkins
#2. A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: 'Take me to the canaries'.
Bob Monkhouse
#3. Places to hunt
places to hide are
getting harder to find, and pet
canaries and goldfish too, did you notice
that?
Charles Bukowski
#4. Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.
John Keats
#5. You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly.
"What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron.
"What did you have to imitate her for?"
"She laughed at my mustache!"
"So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
J.K. Rowling
#6. Wild birds will kill exotic ones: the budgies and the lovebirds and the yellow canaries
escaped from their cages and hoping to get a taste of the sky
usually end up back on the ground, plucked raw by their more conformist cousins
Joanne Harris
#7. The song of canaries
Never varies,
And when they're moulting
They're pretty revolting.
Ogden Nash
#8. Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.
Jaron Lanier
#10. Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets.
Chris Chocola
#11. So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?
Ahdaf Soueif
#12. Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.
Galway Kinnell
#13. Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again.
Dianne Feinstein
#14. Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.
David Suzuki
#15. People say the desert is desolate. Yet for me it's very much alive, full of surprises. As soon as I see those wide-open spaces, I can breathe,
Anneli Rufus
#16. He is an innocent in the way that lonesome canaries are innocent, flitting from one branch to another, the tender flutter of their wings and a few millilitres of blood keeping them airborne against the gravity of this world that wants to pull everyone down to its rotting surface.
Mohammed Hanif
#17. You know it's time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary.
Joan Rivers
#18. That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
#19. Mrs. Grant glanced at her
husband. "She's always so fidgety.
Like a canary." She narrowed her
eyes at me. "I hate canaries."
I squeaked again. But not like a
canary. I hoped.
A&E Kirk
#20. You can't soar like an eagle and crap like a canary.
Ed Sabol
#21. All their love had been a way of fixing time, each embrace a moment's touch of the eternal, because the caress preserves.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#22. The way we view fiction is a reflection of how we define ourselves as a nation. Works of the imagination are canaries in the coal mine, the measure by which we can evaluate the health of the rest of society.
Azar Nafisi
#23. Always look for sparrows before you look for canaries.
Michael Ruhlman
#24. Then he smiled, like a cat who had just been entrusted with the keys to a home for wayward but plump canaries.
Neil Gaiman
#25. And I have two eyes. I've seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What's his name?
Amanda Hocking
#26. Some canaries love their cages, they even call them home.
Marty Rubin
#27. Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.
Seth Godin
#28. Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine.
Peter Tatchell
#29. Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive.
They are supersensitive.
They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas,
long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.
Kurt Vonnegut
#31. He smiled like a cat who'd just eaten a pet shop full of canaries,
C.D. Reiss
#32. He was just thinking aloud, ruling out possibilities by releasing them into the air, like canaries in the coal mine of his mind.
John Connolly
#33. Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty preening of redbirds and bluebirds, the blackbird with the red-tipped wings like startling epaulets.
Terry Kay
#34. It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.
Walker Percy
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