Pigs Quotes - Page 10

• How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?

  Jasper Fforde

  People, House, Three

  Jasper Fforde (2006). “The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime”, p.30, Penguin

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• When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Uncles, Children, Selfish

  The Secret Garden ch. 1 (1911)

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• When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Heaven, Shining

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Pigs in Heaven”, p.115, Faber & Faber

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• I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Self, Views

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid]

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lonely, Hurt, Men

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.131, Macmillan

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• A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side up, ready for caresses, that’s him, our master. Come, kiss me.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Fall, Kissing, Wings

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• It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

  Louis Sachar

  Dirty, Digging A Hole, Grandfather

  "Holes". Book by Louis Sachar, June 1, 2011.

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• All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

  Norma Fox Mazer

  Intelligent, People, Noise

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• Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike." Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine and so on." Murphy's blue eyes glittered with annoyance and anticipation. "Pig. You really enjoy dropping all women together in the same demographic, don't you?" It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Blue, Motorcycle

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.152, Penguin

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• The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word "metaphor" is a metaphor. I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. And when I try and make a picture of the phrase in my head it just confuses me because imagining and apple in someone's eye doesn't have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about.

  Mark Haddon

  Lying, Mean, Eye

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• Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caught in a mirror trap. Here is the passage that follows: "So," said Silas. "Now there are only three of us." "And a pig," said Kandar [the mummy] "Why?" Asked Miss Lupescu, with a wolf-tongue, through wolf teeth. "Why the Pig?" "It's lucky," said Kandar. Miss Lupescu growled, unconvinced. "Did Haroun have a pig?" asked Kandar, simply.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mirrors, Dragons, Missing

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• I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?

  Charles Portis

  Horse, Believe, Heart

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.40, A&C Black

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• If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Thinking, Wonderland

  Kenneth Grahame, Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie, Alexandre Dumas (2012). “The Modern Library Collection Children's Classics 5-Book Bundle: The Wind in the Willows, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, The Three Musketeers”, p.425, Modern Library

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• When Christopher finished, there was a moment of silence. Leo looked at Cam expectantly. “Well?” “Well what?” “Now is the time when you dredge up one of your blasted Romany sayings. Something about roosters laying eggs, or pigs dancing in the orchard. It’s what you always do. Let’s have it.” Cam gave him a sardonic glance. “I can’t think of one right now.” “By God, I’ve had to listen to hundreds of them. And Phelan doesn’t have to hear even one?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Thinking, Eggs, Dancing

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• Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important that sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Talking, Suffering

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• Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

  Davy Crockett

  Hands, Tails, Chance

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• I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

  Mariah Carey

  Duets, Jennifer, Happens

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• Women - why aren't you running the world yet? Frankly I'm disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we've made a testosterone-sodden pig's ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment ... you name it, it's in a gigantic man-wrought mess.

  Charlie Brooker

  Running, Men, Names

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “The Hell of it All”, p.358, Faber & Faber

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• It almost made me long for the flying pig. --Percy

  Rick Riordan

  Long, Flying, Made

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• His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.

  William Golding

  Memories, Struggle, Taken

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.48, Hamilton Books

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• When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

  Louis Sachar

  Dirty, Grandfather, Rotten

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• In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

  John le Carre

  Years, People, Depth

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• I remembered something my first partner had told me. Never wrestle with a pig, Lindsay. You both get dirty. The pig likes it.

  James Patterson

  Dirty, Likes, Firsts

  James Patterson (2001). “1st to Die”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.

  Steig Larsson

  Three, Littles, Practicals

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• Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. To me, he's a great actor.

  Nicolas Cage

  Brother, Hero, Voice

  "Not much rattling Nicolas Cage these days". Interview with Andrea Mineo, www.cnn.com. July 24, 2009.

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