Top 144 Guinea Quotes & Sayings

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.

New Guinea was sort of a graveyard for planes.

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

It's my dream to help Guinea reach the World Cup at least once.

Now many things are beginning to come out and it was truly a reality to me when I went to Africa, to Guinea. The little things that had been taught to me about the African people, that they were "heathens," "savages," and they were just downright stupid people. But when I got to Guinea, we were greeted by the Government of Guinea, which is Black People - and we stayed at a place that was the government building, because we were the guests of the Government.

My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.

We're kind of a guinea pig generation.

All we want is to be treated like human beings, and not to be patronized, or experimented on like guinea pigs.

I've got a mission to help people improve and massively change their lives and create breakthroughs, so I'm always looking for them and I'm the first guinea pig.

I would love to make a film in the outback or in Papua New Guinea, in Port Moresby. I know that it's not in Australia, but it's not too far.

The President of Guinea, Sekou Toure, came to see us on the 13th. Now you know, I don't know how you can compare this by me being able to see a President of a country when I have just been there two days; and here I have been in America, born in America, and I am 46 years pleading with the President for the last two to three years to just give us a chance-and this President in Guinea recognized us enough to talk to us.

We say that we are the guinea pigs of our experiment, we are doing things on ourselves, and if the audience can enjoy it as much as we do then that's great. If they don't, that's not a big deal.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

I'm feeling like Billy the Kidd, skinny B.I.G. You literally live like a guinea pig

I've always been like a guinea pig when it comes to health trends.

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.

Researchers found a frog in new guinea that is so tiny, they believe it's the smallest vertebrate on the planet. It has the tiniest backbone of any living creature, except members of Congress.

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.

When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole guinea pig. But it is a whole tree and a whole guinea pig that have survived and evolved, and we must make the attempt.

It's not that weird, but when I was in Peru, I ate a guinea pig. If you're going to eat guinea pig, you call it cuy. Cute word for such a cute little animal that I ate a few times.

Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise.

Is Guinea prepared? And that's the question because of course these three countries had very, very weak health institutions. Many people had said that there was denial in Guinea, that many people in Guinea either said that Ebola did not exist or were hostile to any sort of Ebola health and safety awareness - how to deal with it.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Ten Guinea Street is on a Historic England site.

I am a human guinea pig and a professional dilettante.

I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.

To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

My family is usually the first guinea pigs to try out my new recipes.

At the time when I was conducting my research there was no known method for taking the guinea pig's temperature. I demonstrated a technique which is now widely used.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

When I was a child, I named my rabbit Pancake and my guinea pig Maple Syrup.

I've played in some spectacularly scenic grounds in Cape Town and Johannesburg, but Papua New Guinea in the Seventies was the most remote place I'd been for my cricketing career.

Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.

What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.

Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus.

The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.

In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer and the next minute I was in parliament.

The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.

The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.

And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

I must say, with regard to Equatorial Guinea, the Government of Equatorial Guinea, as soon as they had arrested these people, sent a delegation here to say they are going to charge them because they have got sufficient information to say these people were planning to remove the Government of Equatorial Guinea by force.

I have a cat. When I was younger, I had a guinea pig.

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.