Platypus Quotes: best 8 famous quotes about Platypus

Top Platypus Quotes

Browse top 8 famous quotes and sayings about Platypus by most favorite authors.

Favorite Platypus Quotes

1. "Dear Uncle Bernard - Your niece Frances - a four-eyed, French-plaited platypus awaiting the evaporation of h baby fat - thanks you very much for the romantic advice. But I've never been one to spend time thinking about why men and women take to each other, or why they don't. I think it can turn a lady neurotic, a term I despise but also am loath to have turned in my direction."
Author: Carlene Bauer

2. "A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus."
Author: Dean Young

3. "Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?"
Author: Jessica Simpson

4. "Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

5. "Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days)."
Author: Marisha Pessl

6. "It is tempting to look upon England as a sort of musical Australia, an island culture inhabited by, and sustaining, its own insular fauna – musical kangaroos, koalas, and platypuses. That, however, would be very much to exaggerate England's musical isolation or independence. It is also a considerable exaggeration to view the English preference for thirds as something altogether alien or opposed to continental practice, as if only in remote geographical corners (and behind closed doors, among consenting adults) could harmonies unsanctioned by Pythagoras or the Musica enchiriadis be furtively enjoyed."
Author: Richard Taruskin

7. "Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus's being ridden by a sea horse........"
Author: Steve Merrick

8. "I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard."
Author: Trevor Dunn