Pigeons Quotes - Page 6

• My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

  Maggie Smith

  Thinking, Careers, Maggie

  "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

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• He (Tesla) was 84, and he died in a hotel, completely broke and alone. In love with a pigeon. This is a nightmare. I'm in hell. This is hell. I'm talking about Tesla in my puke. Tesla was the electric Jesus. I can't breathe.

  Duncan Trussell

  Jesus, Talking, Tesla

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• I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should have had a bicycle then, when I was a kid, but our family didn't have the money for such luxuries. I saved up to buy one myself a few years later.

  Norman Rockwell

  Kids, Luxury, Should Have

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• The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Gun, Law, Missing

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• I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

  Jonathan Frakes

  Thinking, Green, Facts

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• If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Learning, Health, Science

  Richard Isadore Evans, Konrad Lorenz (1975). “Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas”, Harcourt

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• I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.

  Mac Miller

  Mean, Artist, Thinking

  "Mac Miller's 2014 Plans: 'I Have Four Albums Done'" by Rob Markman, www.mtv.com. January 02, 2014.

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• God is, of course, a terrifying reality. I had thought that I knew all about God, and had Him in a pigeon hole. But I met Him at the corner of a street -- He entered my mind with a bang, and nearly burst my head open.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Reality, Mind, Bangs

  Wyndham Lewis (1956). “The Red Priest”, London, Methuen

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• I certainly very much enjoy acting, but I am open to anything really. I think it's important when you have those moments in life when you are not attached to something, and you are not quite sure what the next phase of your journey is going to look like, that you don't pigeon-hole yourself.

  James Scott

  Journey, Thinking, Acting

  "The James Scott Farewell Interview – Days of our Lives". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. October 21, 2014.

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• What happened to your foot?" "I had a little disagreement with an eagle --stupid birds, eagles. He couldn't tell the difference between a hawk and a pigeon. I had to educate him. He bit me while I was tearing out a sizable number of his wing feathers." "Uncle," Polgara said reproachfully. "He started it.

  David Eddings

  Uncles, Stupid, Eagles

  David Eddings (1991). “The Seeress of Kell”, Del Rey

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• Down you go, but all the while you feel suspended and buoyed as you somersault in slow motion like a somnolent tumbler pigeon, and sprawl supine on the eiderdown of the air, or lazily turn to embrace your pillow, enjoying every last instant of soft, deep, death-padded life, with the earth's green see-saw now above, now below, and the voluptuous crucifixion, as you stretch yourself in the growing rush, in the nearing swish, and then your loved body's obliteration in the Lap of the Lord.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Air, Saws, Lap

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• I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Real, Thinking, Rapper

  Source: www.mtv.co.uk

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• Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs concerning the processes of understanding, learning, and thinking, among other things. One of the difficulties has been that such theory as has been developed has been based primarily upon studies of behavior of rats and pigeons. As someone has said, some of the theory thus developed has been an insult even to the rat.

  J. P. Guilford

  Thinking, Should Have, Practice

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• You don't want to get pigeon-holed. So, I always get attracted to parts that are different from the previous ones I've played.

  Elaine Cassidy

  Different, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If people want to pigeon hole you then just view it as an opportunity to prove them wrong and show that you are different to what they think you are.

  Gordon Gee

  Thinking, Opportunity, Views

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• Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!” A bearlike black dog had appeared at Harry’s side as Harry clambered over the various trunks cluttering the hall to get to Mrs. Weasley. “Oh honestly,” said Mrs. Weasley despairingly. “Well, on your own head be it!” The great black dog gave a joyful bark and gamboled around them, snapping at pigeons, and chasing its own tail. Harry couldn’t help laughing. Sirius had been trapped inside for a very long time.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dog, Long, Laughing

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• Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons."

  Karen Russell

  Brother, Dad, War

  "Haunting Olivia" by Karen Russell, www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2005.

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• The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is 'metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology. The pigeon hole into which a man is shoved circumscribes his fate.

  Max Horkheimer

  Fate, Men, Class

  "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 23), 1947.

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• A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage.

  C. D. Darlington

  Maturity, Bird, Reaching

  Genetics and Man Ch. 16

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• I suppose, when you start up in acting, you hope to be given challenges, and you always have dreams about the things you could do and couldn't do, but normally we get pigeon-holed a little bit, as we go on in our careers.

  John Noble

  Dream, Careers, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.

  Miranda Otto

  Jobs, Hate, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.

  John Searles

  Girl, Running, New York

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• If people choose to judge how you look, that's their situation. I didn't feel that it was a problem. I've played all kinds of parts. I've played glamorous, and unglamorous, and all kinds of people. People want to pigeon hole you, I think.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Thinking, People, Judging

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A crossbow?” Pigeon asked. I left my battle-ax in my other jeans,” the man said.

  Brandon Mull

  Men, Jeans, Battle

  Brandon Mull (2014). “The Candy Shop War”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Sunshine, Boys, Air

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1978). “Anna Karenina”

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