Pigs Quotes - Page 5

• I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe.

  Griffin Dunne

  Cutting, Thinking, Finals

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of consumer indignation. But...it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and enforcement action over the hump of lethargy and inaction....Today, nearly forty years later, the situation is worse, not better.

  John Grant Fuller

  Dark, Years, Age

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• My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

  Forest Whitaker

  Summer, Grandparent, Grandfather

  Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. December 2006.

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• No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.

  Rudyard Kipling

  New York, Reflection, Long

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.4529, Delphi Classics

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• There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.

  Edward Lear

  Ducks, Figs, Feds

  Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear (2004). “Utter Nonsense: Selected Poems of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear”, p.29, Lonely Scribe

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• Madame....gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.

  Georges Simenon

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• Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

  Marvin Harris

  Attitude, Years, Roots

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• Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

  Marvin Harris

  Use, Hungry, Grass

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• Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.

  Jared Diamond

  Animal, Camels, Disease

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• I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

  Juan Cole

  Use, Administration, Guinea

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• It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.

  Georg Brandes

  Country, Play, Littles

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

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• Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Weed, Flower, Apples

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1935). “The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.24, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Learning as we go... Why didn't they tell us this before? We, the consumers, are supposed to be docile guinea pigs in a vast but uncontrolled experiment with powerful hormones (HRT). That's quite a commentary on "scientific medicine".

  Ralph W. Moss

  Powerful, Medicine, Guinea

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• The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to an area where there might be truffles. The pig searches diligently for the truffles. Finally, he locates one, and just as he is about to devour it, the farmer snatches it away.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Science, Discovery, Might

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Strong, Writing, School

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• The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Iran, Iraq, Germany

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• Our family holidays always include our animals. On Thanksgiving, we love to walk around our farm and visit with our rescued pigs, goats, horses, emus and many other rescued animals. We give them all special vegetables that day, and the whole family enjoys a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. We know that the animals are giving thanks that day, and we are also giving thanks for the joy they bring to our lives.

  Noah Wyle

  Thanksgiving, Horse, Holiday

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• With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti amo. Eg elska pig. Ich liebe dich. It is moving across time, coming to me in every language of the world, and it sounds like pure love.

  Andrew Davidson

  Love, Moving, Fall

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• The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep pigs and fowl, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butcher shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink... Only the Chandalas (lowest cast) are fisherman and hunters and sell flesh meat.

  Faxian

  Country, Vegetarianism, People

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• Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Father, Awards, Oscars

  "Oscars: As It Happened". Oscar Acceptance Speech, www.empireonline.com. February 28, 2011.

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• I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

  Cornelia Funke

  Dog, Horse, Iceland

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• Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

  John Heywood

  Love, Poke

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.97

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• I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation - that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno - I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

  Luis Bunuel

  Work, Honor, Able

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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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• We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.

  Jean Craighead George

  Horse, Smell, Mountain

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