Famous Quotes & Sayings

We don't want to take any chances, and we don't want to cause any bird death. But we have people call the next day, 'Why did you turn the lights out early?' You can't keep everybody happy.

Dick Thompson

You have to put this in perspective: there have been 180 million birds that have been killed because of this disease and yet we've identified fewer than 200 human cases.

We target the bird-nesting islands. The birds bring the line in from the Gulf fishing piers.

We monitor the situation and we have not discovered any unconventional respiratory diseases in humans suggesting bird flu infection. Monitoring is underway in all districts of southern Russia. Luckily, no confirmed bird flu cases in humans have been reported.

There's going to be another influenza pandemic. History teaches us that. We don't know if the current bird flu is the start of that, we don't know when it will hit. It could happen soon or it might be years off,

There's not this pressure on them of seeing Larry Bird or Isiah Thomas or Jerry West circle the court like was the case last year. The impact they're going to have is now going to be in the college game.

The transmission link between migrating birds and domestic ones has to be cut off before the virus has a chance to get into a host.

The time of the rack and the screws is come. Summer television has set in with its usual severity. And the small screen, where late the sweet birds sang, is now awash with repeats, reruns, rejects, replacements and reversions to the primitive.

The United States is a huge country. There are millions of birds on the move -- but we're going to work smart.

I should make clear from the outset that we do not know if the bird virus we are seeing overseas will ever become ... a pandemic.

Laurie Garrett

Breeding birds pass their harmless strains to each other and the virus mutates.

Wen Jiabao

We have conquered the SARS epidemic in 2003, and we will surely conquer the bird flu virus,

Cormac McCarthy

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

Cliff Martinez

I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

Michael Graves

We use blue on the handle of the Alessi kettle. Blue is cool, so you're supposed to think that it's not hot. And the bird is red: you're supposed to think to be careful to remove the bird.

We understand the stresses on caribou and birds in a much better way than we used to. We can mitigate those disturbances.

David Whyte

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

David Ogilvy

Try and inject into every commercial you make a touch of singularity; a bird that will hook on to the consumers mind

Darrell Royal

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

Clement Freud

About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.

Paula Creamer

We were really hot on the front nine but the back nine - we played it one over - was really frustrating because we gave ourselves a ton of birdie opportunities but couldn't convert.

We consider (them) a very important part of the bird life in Manatee County because of the rookery there.

We climbed the ladder and carefully removed it. The bird was conscious. However, the injury on his leg was bad.

David Archuleta

I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.

David Attenborough

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

David Attenborough

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.

Dave McKean

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

We are coming into a period where the bird flu will be highly transmissible. As the weather warms up, more wild birds will be migrating and it will be easier for the bird flu to be transmitted to a wider area.

We have first century A.D. blue Roman fresco with birds and leaves and gardens that my mother and I love, and we found it in Switzerland. A similar period piece is a fresco fragment with Cupid , such a little angel.

We would only order the housing of birds if there was an outbreak in this country.

We forecast that bird flu mutation is possible in the countries where the number of different viruses is high. This group includes the United States.

William Shakespeare

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

A. A. Milne

A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.