Zitat des Tages über Papagei / Parrot:
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.
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites.
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.
I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.
The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know?
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
I have two dogs and a parrot, so they require a lot of attention. They deserve it.
I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?
I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.
