Chickens Quotes - Page 23

• Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Horse, Communication, Progress

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• I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?" Or, maybe, "May your Jell-O always wiggle?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Book, Writing, Kids

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• Jess:"Sasha? I need some tissue to pack my nose with." Sasha:"Is that hygienically sound?" Jess:"Sasha..." Sasha:"Fine, but if you get toxic shock up your nose, buddy, remember I warned you." Jess pulled a couple out and wedged them into his nostrils. He gave Abigail a sheepish smile. "Sexy, right?" Abby: "Oh yeah, baby. You're so hot right now, if I was a chicken I'd lay hard-boiled eggs.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sexy, Baby, Couple

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• My mother had been slicing up the chicken. She took a drumstick and dropped it on the floor. She kicked it around a little, picked it up and put it on the edge of the plate. "There," she said, "we'll give him this drumstick." "Deal.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mother, Giving, Littles

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Just his luck he was related to this grubby old dude. He hoped all sons of Neptune didn't share the same fate. First, you start carrying a man satchel. Next thing you know, you're running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Weed, Fate

  "The Son of Neptune". Book by Rick Riordan, October 4, 2011.

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• [Crisco] ain't just for frying. You ever get a sticky something stuck in your hair,like gum?...That's right, Crisco. Spread this on a baby's bottom, you won't even know what diaper rash is...shoot, I seen ladies rub it under they eyes and on they husband's scaly feet...Clean the goo from a price tag, take the squeak out a door hinge. Lights get cut off, stick a wick in it and burn it like a candle....And after all that, it'll still fry your chicken.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Baby, Husband, Eye

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• And of course Charlotte hasn't eaten a bit of dinner," Henry said, getting up. "I'll go see if Bridget can't make her up a plate of cold chicken. As for the rest of you-" He paused for a moment, as if he were about to give them an order-send them to bed, perhaps, or back to the library to do more research. The moment passed, and a look of puzzlement crossed his face. "Blast it, I can't remember what I was going to say," he announced, and vanished into the kitchen.

  Cassandra Clare

  Order, Giving, Kitchen

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

  Daniel Boulud

  Pain, Majestic

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• I found that things weren't going well upstairs. Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid.

  Rick Riordan

  Warrior, Pyramids, Found

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Teaching, Reading

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.99, Penguin

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• Royce turned to Hadrian. “It’s supposed to make them look tough, but all it really does is make it easy to identify them as thieves for the rest of their lives. Painting a red hand on everyone is pretty stupid when you think about it.” “That tattoo is supposed to be a hand?” Hadrian asked. “I thought it was a little red chicken. But now that you mention it, a hand does make more sense.” Royce looked back at Will and tilted his head to one side. “Does kinda look like a chicken.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Tattoo, Stupid, Thinking

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• I don’t mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl. And chicken wings.

  Julie James

  Girl, Wings, Mind

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.25, Penguin

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• I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted by emotion too extreme to handle, the body shuts down to keep from running around like a chicken with its head cut off, potentially injuring itself.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Running, Character, Cutting

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.171, Delacorte Press

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• The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Doubt, Chains, Madmen

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I left it with a warmer,” he said drily. Because war mages ate their fried chicken frozen to the ground and they liked it.

  Karen Chance

  War, Frozen, Said

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• I suck at all this supernatural stuff. But I fry a mean chicken. Oh, good. I hate it when the nice ones get fried.

  Darynda Jones

  Hate, Nice, Mean

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.117, Macmillan

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• Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.

  Peter V. Brett

  Home, People, Coward

  Peter V. Brett (2015). “The Demon Cycle 3-Book Bundle: The Warded Man, The Desert Spear, The Daylight War”, p.508, Del Rey

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• If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going?

  Shel Silverstein

  Shoes, Snow, Perfect

  Shel Silverstein, “My Rules”

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• If you've ever tried ba travel, I wouldn't recommend it-- unless of course you fancy turning into a phantom chicken and rafting uncontrollably through the currents of the Duat.

  Rick Riordan

  Rafting, Fancy, Phantoms

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.37, Penguin UK

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• Technically speaking, you drive like a rabid chicken who has hijacked a tractor.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Tractors

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Gabe brings home a chicken and Tommy Falk for dinner. Truth be told, I'm not unhappy to see any of them. Gabe, because it's been so long since we've had dinner with him; the chicken because it's not beans; and Tommy Falk because his presence makes Gabe cheerful and goofy.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Home, Long, Unhappy

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• Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Hats, Nuggets

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• The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way, filet mignon gets cooked too.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Team, Cities, Cooking

  "Win in New York" by Gilbert Arenas, www.nba.com. December 7, 2006.

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• I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Want, Ifs

  "Elizabeth Gilbert Serves Up a New Classic". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

  Alexander Smith

  Pride, Feathers, Expensive

  Alexander Smith (1866). “Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household”, p.141

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