Beak Quotes

There is this big, powerful bird, looking at you as if it expects you to kill it, but it doesn't have the strength to even try to get away. It laid its neck out on the ground and opened its beak, but it couldn't make a sound. - Kevin Sinclair

The sharpest beak on the block. - Ricky Gervais

The only kinds of animal with this beak are skimmers. - Alexander Kellner

The odor was traced to the tissue-culture room on the second floor, where a beaker containing bleach had been placed in the sink. A lab worker put the bleach in the beaker and left it uncovered. - Gregg Takayama

The machines are functional and they will be used. - Ben Beakes

The first priority of this office is, 'Is it a bill we can administer? - Ben Beakes

The bird's vocal tract, like the human vocal tract in speech, acts as a resonance filter that can control the sound coming from the mouth. Beak movements during song also contribute to this filter, but are not as important as changes in the size of the internal vocal tract. Human sopranos use the same technique as the cardinal to increase the loudness of very high notes so they can be heard above the orchestra. - Roderick Suthers

Some of the bees have long beaks, and some of them have short beaks. Some flowers are deep; some are shallow. - Carolyn Lidge

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble. - Ambrose Bierce