Quotes About Parrots By Mark Twain

#1. It's not what you don't know that hurts you; it's what you think you know that isn't so.

David Weber

#2. Lord help us to understand that everything we desire to achieve has to have a basic start/foundation. For example: every story has an introduction, body and closing. So there is no way we can skip one of the three elements.

Euginia Herlihy

#3. In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

Edgar Allan Poe

#4. One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

Henry Rollins

#5. Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.

Eudora Welty

#6. I had the assassins of the former president of Egypt, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was with me in prison, the leaders of my own former group Hizb ut-Tahrir were with me in prison and so by the time I was released at the age of 28, I wasn't the man who went in at 24.

Maajid Nawaz

#7. She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

Mark Twain