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RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".
Chinese porcelain was popular, too. The word comes from the Italian for a cowrie shell; literally, porcellana was a 'little pig', and the connection seems grounded in the glossy shell's resemblance either to a pig's back or to a sow's glisteningly crinkled vagina.35
Who will not change a raven for a dove?
Squirrel as in squirrel squirrel?
A rather jolly little pony, quite possibly wearing a straw hat with holes cut out for its ears.
It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.
a creature of impulse.
It was a large bay gelding, which for Ty translated to big-ass brown horse.
In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.
Hamsters. We have other names for them; rats, weasels, rodents, but with their fine, golden fur, round faces and whiskers, what they most look like are hamsters.
Australopithecus.
Conceited little mega-puppy.
Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?
Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.
The fish was a twelve-inch rainbow trout with a huge hump on its back. A hunchback trout.
A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.
I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.
Spotted Park Bench
I am a park bench.
Ordinary words cannot
express my thoughts on birds.
fishhook. It's squiggly like a worm. Something's
A wonderful bird is the pelican His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week, But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
Peregrine Falcon This is a large falcon about the size of a crow.
You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, ... a hog from Epicurus' herd.
[Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,
... Epicuri de grege porcum.]
Tortoises are incredible creatures," Dad says earnestly. "What they lack in elegance and beauty they more than make up for in the ability to curl up and defend themselves from predators."
"What, like me?
Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to forst and betrayal.
Red squirrels ... you don't see many of them since they became extinct.
Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.
I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.'
We don't have pigeons.'
Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.
Bird of Wide Experience I
The dolphin (dorado), which is a brilliantly colored tropical fish, must not be confused with the creature, also called dolphin, which is a small, toothed whale.
PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out ...
E canchis amnia.
Everything from shells.
Squirrels, otters, hedgehogs, mice,
Moles with fur like sable,
Gathered in good spirits all,
Round the festive table.
Sit we down to eat and drink.
Friends, before we do, let's think,
Fruit of forest, field and banks,
To the seasons we give thanks.
Margaery, you're clever, be a dear and tell your poor old half-daft grandmother the name of that queer fish from the Summer Isles that puffs up to ten times its own size when you poke it."
"They call them puff fish, Grandmother."
"Of course they do. Summer Islanders have no imagination.
hippo-comedietta
PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.
Seagulls ... slim yachts of the element.
MY GAZELLES ARE ALL IN ROW, (But they run off a lot)
Kego O'Grady
When you go to see the lake, you also see the hippos.
Is this chicken or is this fish?
Here in the eastern woodlands we have the black, common, tulip, and white morels, and one unfortunate little cousin called (I am so sorry) the Dog Pecker.
PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.
Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.
A big furry creature that purrs while it sits on your lap and squashes you!
a misbegotten cockwaffle.
Hey Chris, bet you don't know the Latin name of the red-headed woodpecker.
That was a hard one. Chris had to say Melanerpes erythrocephalus very slowly.
long squirrel guns
[Author's Notes] As I write this, September 2002, much about the humpback song is still unknown. (Although scientists do know that it tends to be found in the New Age music section, as well as in tropical waters ... )
You can't put this possum in a cage
Armadillos that, in some cases, grew to be as large as Fiat 500s.
I wonder what the animal's name was.
As Siri walked along that oh-so-noisy riverbank on his way to work, he saw a pelican gliding above the surface of the water. It was a marvelous bird, proud and resourceful, and he imagined how it would taste with a little chili paste and fresh yams. Hungry people made poor environmentalists.
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot ...
(at age thirteen) I think sharks smile like women dad. Like Jenny's smiling at you right now.
...
But have you ever noticed how porpoises smile like effeminate men? They're bi-sexual, you know. Me, I'd rather have sex with a porpoise than a shark.
An Englishman was reflecting on the different words that people use for fish. 'Isn't it strange,' he said, 'that the French say le poisson, the Spanish say el pescado, and the English call it fish - which is what it is.'
Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study of natural history, and a very good wedge into conservation awareness.
Phoenix, n.
The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'
Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.
Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback
Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars.
Caught one a live by poreing a great quantity of Water in his hole.
Um, yes sir. It's just. That looks like a hamster." "It is a hamster. In all essentials. However, we call them POCKs. That stands for Piece Of Crap.
A Chihuahua. They're good. If you lose one, just empty out your purse.
One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures ... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
The sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water
Hairy Mammal whaddya want
Dolphin's dancing
on the wave's
leaping, playing
having fun
in the sun
THE DOMESTICATION OF HUNCH
I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
I used to call her, in my stupidity - for want of anything better - a dove
They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.
How can you be dour when you have a tiny duck?
It was a hound of some sort, black and disproportionately long-bodied, with lets so stumpy that they appeared to have been amputated. With large, liquid eyes and a sturdy long tail in constant motion, it resembled nothing so much as and exceedingly amiable sausage.
THE REPTILE ROOM
The otter's picnic ground is a large rock where we always find empty turtle shells. It is rather sad, but I can't help thinking how conveniently packaged a turtle is to an otter. Like a kind of Big Mac in a crushproof box.
I think guinea pigs are fabulous!!
If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is poontang.
Summerlee burst into derisive laughter. 'A ptero-fiddlestick!' said he. 'It was a stork, if I ever I saw one.
If I was a Pokemon, I'll either be a Psyduck or a Jigglypuff.
There was a cable-TV program that documented how Peeps are made, and it showed unlimited hordes of Peeps bouncing merrily down a conveyor belt, right toward the camera. I came.
It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.
A hamster is basically just a warm potato with fur.
I used to breed poodles. I liked them because they were fluffy and so cute - and honestly, they make a lot of money when you sell them!
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races ... very handy.
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
That was a pygmy marmoset by the way. Just in case you were wondering."
I wheezed. "Thank you oh Walking Monkey Dictionary.
Just saying. Nobody puts my piranha in the corner
I have an African gray parrot; her name is Eli. We thought she was a boy. And a blue-streaked lory named Marco. He's 10. And a yellow and green parakeet, Petey. He's very cute, but he's getting old.
What is the extinction of a condor to a child who has never seen a wren?
A cicada whines,
his voice
Starting to drown through the rainy world,
No ripple of wind,
no sound but his song of black wings,
No song but the song of his black wings.
Such emptiness at the heart,
such emptiness at the heart of being,
Seagull owner?" "Flies in, shits on everything, and then leaves.
The southern edge of town. Tim was a liver-colored bird dog, the pet of Maycomb. "What's he doing?" "I don't know, Scout. We better go home.
They are white, four-limbed, about the size of a full-grown human, but that's where the comparisons stop. Naked, with long reptilian tails, arched backs, and heads that jut forward.