Top 25 Chickens Quotes of 183 - Page 6

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

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

Thinking, Want, Chickens

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

Never count your chickens before you can stick a fork into them.

Christian McKay

Sticks, Chickens, Forks

Garlicky chicken is the best breakfast in the world.

Cameron Diaz

World, Breakfast, Chickens

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

Annie Dillard

Generations, Heroic, Chickens

Annie Dillard (2010). “For the Time Being”, p.70, Vintage

What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?

Walter Kirn

Cold, Bones, Chickens

Walter Kirn (1993). “She Needed Me”

When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.

Truman Capote

Chickens, Combination, Mass

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.

Terry Goodkind

Evil, Ordinary, Chickens

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.

Susan Orlean

Animal, Water, Chickens

"Chicken Chores" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2011.

Fine, but I’m not ripping the head off a voodoo chicken or drinking anything disgusting. (Grace)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Drinking, Grace, Chickens

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.19, Macmillan

On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love.

Seth Green

Robots, Done, Chickens

Call it crazy, or just chicken salad.

Sarah Dessen

Crazy, Salad, Chickens

Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.127, Penguin

I speculate that the genesis of the chicken-joke lies in some situation such as the one illustrated above, but over time the original context of the joke was lost, which left the chicken sadly decontextualized.

Ryan North

Lying, Lost, Chickens

"Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?". www.insaneabode.com.

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

Robin Morgan

Women, Eggs, Chickens

Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.368, Open Road Media

When in doubt chicken out.

Robin Jones Gunn

Doubt, Chickens, When In Doubt

Robin Jones Gunn (2011). “Christy Miller Collection”, p.318, Multnomah

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

Chickens, Dishes, British

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

Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.

Robert Southey

Home, Like You, Chickens

The Curse of Kehama motto (1810). Geoffrey Chaucer wrote something similar in "The Parson's Tale" (ca. 1387): "And ofte tyme swich cursynge wrongfully retorneth agayn to hym that curseth, as a bryd that retorneth agayn to his owene nest."

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, Chickens

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

After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That’s fine for Carter, but I have standards.

Rick Riordan

Glowing, Kites, Chickens

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

Rick Riordan

Men, Machines, Chickens

Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.206, Penguin UK

Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn’t spread quite yet.

Rick Riordan

Men, Incidents, Chickens

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

(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.

Pat Conroy

Temptation, Watches, Chickens

Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.90, Open Road Media