Quotes tagged ‘Peacock’

(2 total)

“Aha! Come to think of it, that might explain the insistence of the oppressed that the oppressor must not be allowed to camouflage his appearance or confuse the poor by stealing and masquerading in their clothes. Perhaps it is the demand of that primitive integrity of the earth... Or, who knows, it m…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“I read a theory once that the human intellect was like peacock feathers. Just an extravagant display intended to attract a mate. All or art, literature, a bit of Mozart, William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Empire State Building—just an elaborate mating ritual.”

— Halley Wegryn Gross, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com