Chickens Quotes - Page 37

• Movies. Drinks. Headless chickens. You know, girl stuff.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Girl, Stuff, Drink

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• The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

  Jasper Fforde

  Food, Vegetables, Nuts

  Jasper Fforde (2010). “Shades of Grey”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Kings, Nice, Greed

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• God, it was hot! Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken.

  Rachel Caine

  Eggs, Hot, Heat

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Chill Factor”, p.9, Allison & Busby

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• The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.

  Jon Stewart

  Church, Baptists, Fried Chicken

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  Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

  Dick Gregory

  White, People, Lasts

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Funny, Eggs, Bird

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2013

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• Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal

  Kyle Petty

  Lazy, Racing, Nascar

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• Creativity is like chasing chickens.

  Christoph Niemann

  Creativity, Chasing

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• The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key deciscions made by religious people. By irrationalists. By those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Reading, Keys

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Home, Touching, Use

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• The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Ducks, Guarantees

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• As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Writing, Animal

  "Joyce Carol Oates, writer - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I had to make my body fit like Bruce Lee. I trained for eight months, five days a week, eight hours a day. I just ate chicken breasts and vegetables, sometimes just egg whites.

  Rain

  Eight, Vegetables, Eggs

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• I went up on stage, and said, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks." I was a genius at 10. Try telling that at 21, and you look hacky and stupid. That was the only joke I've ever told. Everything since has been character voices, doing impressions or just telling stories.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Stupid, Character, Voice

  "Gabriel Iglesias talks about 'The Fluffy Movie', his life and cake". Interview with Jeff Mitchell, www.phoenixfilmfestival.com. July 22, 2014.

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• Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.

  Bob Inglis

  Funny, Humor, Term Limits

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• If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Mother, College, Kiev

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm a whitebread cracker. That's my favorite white person slur: "whitebread". The other day, someone came up to me and said, "What's up, whitebread?" And I was like, "That's not even an insult. That's just my race plus a food. I can do that, too, black bean soup! Stay out of this, Asian chicken platter!"

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Race

  "Comedy Central Presents / Mike Birbiglia: 2". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• When I watch animals, I realize I am watching individual with lives that matter, to them. It isn't just another chicken or another mouse. She is that particular hen, autonomous and unique. He is that particular mouse with a unique life and social identity.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Animal, Unique, Identity

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• It depends as there's many different types of chefs, some who cook for awards and others who cook to make their restaurant a great business. There are those who cook for a lifestyle, they'll have come through pubs and they like to have the connection to the farmers and the chickens and the natural produce. So for each chef it'll be slightly different.

  Paul Rankin

  Awards, Connections, Different

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• At the end of the day, yes. It's all about the marbling and maybe a few other things along the way. But intramuscular fat, that's where you get a lot of flavor. Fat carries the flavor but in the last 50 years it's been bred out of pigs. When American chicken exploded in the 70's and became such a huge commodity, it took away pork sales. The pork industry suffered and had to change.

  Dan Barber

  Pigs, Years, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.starchefs.com

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• I can’t believe I was almost too chicken to play Captain America.

  Chris Evans

  Believe, Play, America

  "Chris Evans in Costume as Captain America!" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

  Robin Cook

  Dishes, British

  "Robin Cook's chicken tikka masala speech". www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2001.

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• I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.

  Joel Robuchon

  Eggs, Sides, Comfort

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• The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

  David Mitchell

  Malicious

  David Mitchell (2008). “Ghostwritten”, p.385, Hachette UK

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