Quotes About Cockatoos

#1. Colonial American and Australian schoolchildren once memorized poems about British skylarks while the blue jays or cockatoos (according to continent) squawked outside, utterly ignored. The dominant culture has a way of becoming more real than the stuff at hand.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. Scientists have reported that elephants grieve their dead, monkeys perceive injustice and cockatoos like to dance to the music of the Backstreet Boys.

Hal Herzog

#3. ... Full of old cockatoos who used to be rich and aren't any longer, but they cling to yesterday tooth and nail, preferring to live on bread and sardines rather than sell what little they have left of their faded glory.

Maria Duenas

#4. The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble ... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

Warren Buffett

#5. I was static, standing on the platform, watching train after train go by, wishing I knew which one to be on.

Renee Carlino

#6. Don't wait for other people to be loving, giving, compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, or friendly ... lead the way!

Steve Maraboli

#7. Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

Rupert Brooke

#8. I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

G.H. Hardy

#9. I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.

Al Lewis

#10. Everyone loves a kick-ass girl. (Well- maybe not her enemies, but you know what I mean.)

Sarah Cross

#11. I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

J. Michael Straczynski

#12. I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

Irvine Welsh

#13. It was late when he got home, but as usual, every light in the house was still switched on. A lot of school time nowadays was spent on conservation and renewable energy, but his two boys hadn't learned yet how to depart a room without leaving on the lights. He

Harlan Coben

#14. Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

Thomas Carlyle

#15. The desert always feels like a complete waste of time. It is only when we are able to look back that our desert experiences make sense.

Andy Stanley

#16. No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave similarly in that their most esteemed members berate its poorest members.

Michael Eric Dyson

#17. There is something of the warrior in me.

Lech Walesa

#18. Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else
it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.

Will Arnett