Pigs Quotes - Page 11

• Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.

  Salma Hayek

  Dog, Horse, Cat

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• I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

  Marilu Henner

  Doctors, Class, Library

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• I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Food, Italian, Three

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• When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!

  Bryan Cranston

  Trying, Actors, Firsts

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• Anita can speak for herself," Richard said. Jean-Claude's attention flicked back to me. "That is certainly true. But I came to see how the two of you enjoyed the play." "And pigs fly," I said. "You don't believe me?" "Not hardly," I said.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Believe, Play, Two

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.39, Penguin

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• And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.

  Julie Burchill

  Doors, Dinner, Dutch

  "Chill factors". www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• I mumble hocus-pocus and the next thing you know, I’m a cat. (Ravyn) I suppose it’s a step up. The last guy I had in my house could only turn into a beer-drinking pig. (Susan)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Drinking, Cat, Beer

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• Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said... Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things... Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax... Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings... Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot... Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings!

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Kings, Sea, Wings

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• I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world.

  Fred Hampton

  People, Panthers, World

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• I’m happier than a pig eating bacon!

  Daniel Handler

  Eating

  "The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 11)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), September 21, 2004.

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• As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to chops and sausages. Quite why they should dress up for children’s wallpaper as well was a mystery. Hello, little folk, this is what you’re going to eat… He felt that if only he could find the key to it, he’d know a lot more about human beings.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Keys, Dresses

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.411, Random House

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• After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have closed their doors The pigs have no one to arrest except themselves The drugs no longer have an effect When it's all over All I'll remember is you

  Henry Rollins

  Doors, Sea, Drug

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• We celebrities are desperate pigs.

  Penn Jillette

  Desperate

  Penn Jillette (2012). “Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Bestselling Author of God, No!”, p.28, Penguin

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• Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Elephants, Parent

  "Is Christianity Good for the World?". Book by Christopher Hitchens, ‎Douglas Wilson, 2009.

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• Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.

  Kitty Kelley

  Country, Military, Numbers

  "Obama and the Legacy of Camelot" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock.

  Paula Deen

  Vegetables, Ham, Littles

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• When in doubt, pig out!

  Jim Davis

  Doubt, When In Doubt

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Pigs Out: His 42nd Book”, Ballantine Group

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• This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight. 5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast. 6. An Englishman's home is his castle. 7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male. 8. One black eye deserves another. 9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm. 10. It pays to increase your word power.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Book, Home, Eye

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• I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die, where on my knees I prayed for LIGHT, I prayed for l*i*g*h*t, and praying crawled like a blind slug into the web where threads of wind stuck against my mind and I died of pity for Man, for myself, on a cross without nails, watching in fear as the pig belches in his sty, farts, blinks and eats.

  Charles Bukowski

  Rain, Men, Wind

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• All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.

  Antonin Artaud

  Writing, People, Mind

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.85, Univ of California Press

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• I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.

  Douglas Coupland

  Crazy, Dark, Sky

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• Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Heart, Tasks, Assistants

  Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.179, Macmillan

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• Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

  Beth Ditto

  Hair, Personality, Body

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2007.

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• I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.

  Sandra Bullock

  Desire, Dresses, Lifestyle

  "Miss universe" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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• I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.

  Kesha

  Baby, Want, Leashes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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