Quotes About Ostriches

#1. You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.

Shelley Duvall

#2. The ostriches were like messengers who had learned their vital message by heart, but whose vocal chords had been slit by the enemy, so that when they finally reached their goal, all they could do was move their mouths.

Milan Kundera

#3. Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex D. Linz

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

Warren Ellis

#5. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them.

Al Feldstein

#6. A houri stroked the top of Isaac's head. "Are you truly pure?" he asked.
"We are as chaste as the sheltered eggs of ostriches."
"How dull," Isaac replied.

Rabih Alameddine

#7. We have chickens! And ostriches - they're like a chicken, only bigger! One of my colleagues is working on a Tyrannosaur - that's like a really huge chicken, with teeth - but for architectural reasons we can't let it roam free just yet.

Charles Stross

#8. Sometimes, if you close your eyes and keep still, you can be invisible. Ostriches know this." - Constantine

Jamie Delano

#9. I like ostriches. There's a certain depth to their gaze," he mused quietly.

Camilla Monk

#10. Ostriches like shiny things like coins and eyeballs.

Charise Mericle Harper

#11. It becomes known as the time of the ostriches. "Do we have our heads in the sand, Madame? Or do they?" "Maybe everybody does," she murmurs. Madame

Anthony Doerr

#12. We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, and not as ostriches nor as dogs in the manger. We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#13. You might be a redneck if a full-grown ostrich has fewer feathers than your cowboy hat.

Jeff Foxworthy

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction.

Pierre Daninos

#17. Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.

Lenny Bruce

#18. Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?

Arlo Guthrie

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Georges Rouault

#22. I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.

Totie Fields

#23. Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.

John Gay

#24. OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe ... The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

Ambrose Bierce

#25. America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

Woodrow Wilson

#26. A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot is in the stirrup iron. In old times, the gaucho often rode with only the great toe of the bare foot in a metal ring.

Luis Marden

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

Busta Rhymes

#28. 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

#29. A weapon, I told Horus. I need a weapon. I reached into the Duat and pulled out an ostrich feather. "Really?" I yelled. Horus didn't answer

Rick Riordan

#30. Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

H.G.Wells

#31. Rock star, flier than an ostrich.

Juelz Santana