Woodrow Wilson
Politician
"America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand."
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Ostriches
38 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Pierre Salinger
Journalist
"I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich."
Bette Davis
Actress
"I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment."
Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand."
Hugo Chavez
Politician
"I shook Obama's hand and I said, 'I want to be your friend.' My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama's enemy, but it's difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don't see it don't want to see it, like the ostrich."
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"I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories."
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"I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta."
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"Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes"
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"Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man."
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"Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich."
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"Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?"
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"Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man."
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"We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens. I'm prepared to put up with that accusation, because at least my feet aren't killing me and I don't look like a bandy ostrich."
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