Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. – Joseph Wood Krutch
I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special. – Alan King
My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for ‘Guard Dog’ when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird. – Bill Plympton
All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window? – Ingrid Newkirk
For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly. – Benjamin Franklin
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. – Charlotte Bronte
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. – C. S. Lewis
Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook… so don’t touch that door! – Alton Brown
The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country. – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Most chartreuse recipes call for one bird, a fat one, like a pigeon or a partridge, secreted inside the casing, a vegetable mold, which is then turned out onto a plate. – Bill Buford
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. – Alma Gluck
I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You’re just as free as a bird! – Bettie Page
Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That’s evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be. – Alton Brown
My writing often contains souvenirs of the day – a song I heard, a bird I saw – which I then put into the novel. – Amy Tan
I don’t have a big appetite. I don’t eat a lot, to be honest – never. I’m a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I’m not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know? – Carine Roitfeld
For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive. – Al Purdy
I’m an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another. – Andrew Motion
