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  • There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released. -- Beck
  • I look at my career as a body of work, not just Queens of the Stone Age records. I'm in Eagles of Death Metal, I'm in Them Crooked Vultures; I make records with other people. -- Josh Homme
  • Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature. -- Plutarch
  • Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky. -- Roger Tory Peterson
  • Blood is everywhere..Vultures take shelter beneath the tanks;for the fumed sky is unsafe for their avian flight to prey on the Palestinian flesh. -- Munia Khan
  • Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.' -- Paul Stanley
  • Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together. -- John Gay
  • We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off. -- Nicholas Kristof
  • Debt vultures are really the scum at the bottom of the pond. These are guys who buy up the debts of the world's poorest countries on the secondary market. You can go buy debts of a country like Peru, for example, at a real discount. Why? Because people think that the debts won't be repaid. -- Noreena Hertz
  • Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings -- Isaac Watts
  • Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures. -- Eugene H. Peterson
  • Women are one and all a set of vultures. -- Petronius
  • Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics. -- Libba Bray
  • Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Elvis is bound to be dead. Look at all the vultures in his vicinity. -- Sharyn McCrumb
  • Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead. -- David Lloyd George
  • And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling. -- Bruce Chatwin
  • From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going -- Tony Juniper
  • A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring. -- T.F. Hodge
  • "¦but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. -- Homer
  • Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey. -- Paul Theroux
  • ...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms. -- Jim Morrison
  • You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all. -- Isaac Asimov
  • My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there. -- Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
  • But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite. -- Sydney J. Harris
  • I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing -- Sting
  • Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery. -- Libba Bray
  • Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'" -- Paul Stanley
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