Squawking Quotes

#1. Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today.

Julie Burchill

#2. Although, honestly, watching authors fistfight is like watching geese play Jeopardy. There's a lot of honking and squawking but no one ever gets to what they're supposed to be doing.

John Scalzi

#3. Gossiping and squawking for no reason is really pointless.

Jenna Morasca

#4. He was like a huge smug albatross waddling around my desk, squawking vacuously and crapping all over my paperwork.

Tana French

#5. Liam and I shared a friendly competition, and it gave me a certain, blissful satisfaction to catch the same wave and to get to shore first. "Oh yeah!" I shouted over the noise of the crashing surf. Seagulls flocked and circled over us, squawking loudly, adding to the cacophony. The sun glistened off

Lee Strauss

#6. There was drinking. There was animalistic growling and squawking. There was vomiting. There were flows of excrement. Thus far, this was indistinguishable from most parliaments, but it was the refusal to get down to any real work that galled Satan.

Jonathan L. Howard

#7. Been trading up recently? You have, haven't you? You'll be squawking that you're too rational, too busy and too socially concerned for any of that. But go through the fridge - come to think of it, what about the fridge itself? I bet it's bigger than its predecessor.

Peter York

#8. And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare ... oh, it's just an oboe player.

Steve Irwin

#9. She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. The funeral of Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage was flawed when his pet parrot had to be removed because it kept squawking out the profanity Jackson had taught the foul fowl.20

Craig Shirley

#11. Caw! Caw, Hartley, caw!"
Chase narrowed his eyes again.
"Sam?"
I nodded. Then crossed to the window again and called down to Sam. "You can quit squawking. He caught me.

Gemma Halliday

#12. Learning to pipe isn't easy. At first it always sounds worse than a chicken yard full of squawking adolescent roosters.

Amy Jarecki

#13. I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.

W. H. Auden

#14. I know exactly how strong he is ... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak.
-Jason to Mahiya

Nalini Singh

#15. At night frantic men walked boldly to hen roosts and carried off the squawking chickens. If they were shot at, they did not run, but splashed sullenly away; and if they were hit, they sank tiredly in the mud.

John Steinbeck

#16. The office on the other end of the comm was squawking at him. Bodhi ignored it.
"Rogue One," he declared, "pulling away!

Alexander Freed

#17. Her blood-curdling snoring, with its gargling and squawking and its terrifying pauses is like the sound the devil might make if he were alternately relishing and strangling on a pound of human flesh.

Bailey White

#18. McMurphy tied a chunk of meat to each end of a four-foot string, tossed it into the air, and sent two squawking birds wheeling off, Till death do them part.

Ken Kesey

#19. Katherine -I wondered if this was how Dorothy felt when she woke up in Oz with all the little people squawking ding dong, the witch is dead.

Lorraine Beaumont

#20. In the chalky trough under the blackboard
are lessons dusted and already forgotten.
The teacher is squawking away once more,
scratching into the dark Welsh tabula rasa
the truths so far about God and arithmetic
with the expungible white of fossil shells.

Richie McCaffery

#21. Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree ...

Hamish Blake

#22. Even Donald Trump's hairpiece is fed up with his insults and says it now supports Bernie Sanders. When Trump found out, he sobbed

Michael R. Burch

#23. Remember that the sudden decision to stop fighting, and just go with the flow, can be incredibly releasing. Resistance is just so draining. There is a beauty to gracious acceptance, an energy that leads to peace.

Nikki Gemmell

#24. How am I supposed to go back? How am I supposed to forget what it was like to be with you? To be loved by you?

Tahereh Mafi

#25. James slid into his seat and the girl next to him asked, "What's wrong with your eyes?" It wasn't until he heard the horror in the teacher's voice - "Shirley Byron!" - that he realized he was supposed to be embarrassed; the next time it happened, he had learned his lesson and turned red right away.

Celeste Ng

#26. I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

Peter Maxwell Davies

#27. The jester is brother to the sage.

Arthur Koestler

#28. I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

George Berkeley

#29. This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.

Michael Lang

#30. I'm glad to hear that what belongs to me can't be swayed by the pretty words of others.

Maya Banks