#parr

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. ↗

— Mark Twain

#keeps #kind #parrot #person #quite

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#appears #comes #languages #man #many

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#female #generally #lot #men #other

Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#because #been #combinations #could #fast

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#build #cries #forth #leaves #old

Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. ↗

— Neil Innes

#clapton #come #eric #eric clapton #his

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#between #biggest #biggest difference #concerned #difference

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#economist #got #parrot #supply #teach

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish. ↗

— Chevy Chase

#goldfish #great #make #more #parrots

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that. ↗

— Joan Didion

#did #eye #feel #go #had