Cows Quotations | Page 3

Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery.

A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field.

The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.

What are you doing here, Simi? (Astrid) Feeling peckish. Is there any food? Something not too heavy. Maybe a cow or two? (Simi)

I don’t have to do nothing you say, you old heifer cow. And you are old. Really, really old. And a cow, too. (Simi)

It's been a full week since she left and all you've done is sulk like a dying cow"(Kish) Dying cows don't sulk." (sin) How do you know? Do you make it a habit to hang around dying cows?" (Kish)

When a cow lives with the butcher, sooner or later he gets eaten unless he helps the other cows off to their slaughter. (Nick)

Uh-huh. You know with that sinister tone you should look into working for the IRS. I’m sure they’re desperate for people who can cow others with a single growl. (Susan)

I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow.

Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows.

Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.

Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles... Look over and above them.

Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

But don't blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she's still experimenting.

Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.

You can run until the cows come home.

The major disappointment was that no deal was announced, because it reflects that it's more difficult than the market thought, that the process may take longer or that the price won't be as high. The cash cows aren't the cash cows people expected and a buyer basically doesn't have to have it.

This is a huge victory. My candidacy shows that the river of discontent is real and people are ready for a change. They want a county judge that looks after their interests and does not consider taxpayers as cash cows for every whim of government.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

The hogs and the cows would get fat on them.

The cattle started getting really hot and sticky and there were a lot of no times (when teams didn't get a score because of taking too long or driving too many cows past the center line) this afternoon.

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.

All the sacred cows of one year ago are getting decimated.

I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???

There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it.

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.

It's like hunting cows

Cows are the Devil's handmaidens.

"You got beef, bring your cow, I will cattle you"

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger

There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.

Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each other. But because she was Hitler's favorite, she could do what she wanted. She was the only filmmaker that did not have to cow down to Joseph Goebbels.

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

If only someone would do for cows what Bambi did for deer. Cows have been in films, but they haven't starred. I'm still willing to eat a species that is only a supporting player.

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

WHERE'S MY COW? ARE YOU MY COW?

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.

Red cattle," Annabeth said. "The cattle of the sun." "What?" I [Percy] asked. "They're sacred to Apollo." "Holy cows?

If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you.

The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.

The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

In India a farmhand was caught in the act with his cow. He said he had bad eyesight and thought it was his wife.

The best part is coming." "What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?" "No. That's the finale.

Don't cry over spilled milk-- get angry and punch a cow.

Cows are a lot smarter across the board than bulls.

It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.

Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.

For an absurd moment, I wondered if Ammit devoured the hearts of wicked cows, and if he liked the beefy taste. - Carter Kane

I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!

Just because you need a quart of milk doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow.

We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.

I make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.

It’s bits of dead cow; don’t ask it to perform miracles.

What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.

You’re a cow Give me some milk Or else go home

A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To attend chiefly to the desk or schoolhouse while we neglect the scenery in which it is placed is absurd. If we do not look out we shall find our find schoolhouse standing in a cow-yard at last.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns

Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.

A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God

Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.

Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.

Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.

Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.