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TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man. -- Susanna Centlivre
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book. -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the whole world now. There are probably tribes in the heart of the Papua New Guinean rainforest that know all the words to the Dead Parrot sketch. -- Rhianna Pratchett
I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it. -- Brion James
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle
Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. -- Neil Innes
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. -- Billy Graham
I have two dogs and a parrot, so they require a lot of attention. They deserve it. -- Cassie Steele
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. -- Will Rogers
My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to. -- Hannah Simone
I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English. -- Sandra Cisneros
Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means. -- Robert Kiyosaki
What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. -- Mark Twain
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. -- Sakya Pandita
Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites. -- Steve Irwin
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. -- Joseph Conrad
I have an African gray parrot; her name is Eli. We thought she was a boy. And a blue-streaked lory named Marco. He's 10. And a yellow and green parakeet, Petey. He's very cute, but he's getting old. -- Roz Chast
The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know? -- Mick Ralphs
I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying! -- Justin Chon
Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person's back is turned or having other people parrot what they say. -- Shoshannah Stern
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. -- Marie Corelli
I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you? -- Joel Edgerton
Cant is the parrot talk of a profession. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I'm going back to my parrot head friends. -- Jimmy Buffett
A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage. -- Sylvia Plath
You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot. -- Angie Sage
Shirley and Griffey get along like a rattler and a parrot. -- Jerry Coleman
She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot -- Mark Twain
If they'd wanted a nice parrot, they wouldn't have asked for me. -- Gilbert Gottfried
As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot. -- Erik Spiekermann
I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot. -- Stella Gibbons
I bought myself a parrot, but it did not say "I'm hungry", and so it died. -- Mitch Hedberg
Sqwaak!" from Fletcher, the environmental crime fighting parrot in The Big Belch graphic novel by Kay Wood. -- Kay Wood
I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF! -- Jack Handey
If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards. -- Mitch Hedberg
I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents. -- Ray Stevenson
The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion -- Bobby Gould
Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas. -- Shahin Najafi
It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end. -- Frederick Lenz
I think my wife is cheating on me, the only thing the parrot knows how to say is, quick out the window. -- Rodney Dangerfield
That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness. -- P. W. Botha
You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz. -- P. G. Wodehouse
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand." -- Thomas Carlyle
God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people. -- Billy Sunday
My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket. -- W. P. Kinsella
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign. -- William Cowper
Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. -- Sakya Pandita
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does notâ??which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. -- Carl Jung
The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb. -- Alexander Theroux
My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar. -- Rumi
Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep's clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech? -- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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