Alligators Quotes - Page 2

• All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

  Charlaine Harris

  Wall, White, Lilies

  Charlaine Harris (2002). “Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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• If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.

  Davy Crockett

  Horse, Real, Men

  "5-year-old descendant of Davy Crockett kills bear" by Heather Crawford, www.espn.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

  Karen Russell

  Florida, Swamps, Wrestler

  "Life, Love And Undeath In The 'Lemon Grove'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 8, 2013.

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• Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

  Diane Ackerman

  Rowdy, Wells, Laboratory

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.64, Vintage

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• I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

  Luther Allison

  Names, People, Looks

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• They will do more whether we do what we're doing or whether we don't do what we're doing. And the idea that you could appease them [terrorists] by stopping doing what we're doing or some implication that by doing what we're doing we're inciting them to attack us is just utter nonsense. It's just - it's kind of like feeding an alligator, hoping it eats you last.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Ideas, Stopping, Lasts

  "September 11, 2001: Attack on America". Donald Rumsfeld's remarks during the the U.S. Department of Defense News Briefing, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 13, 2001.

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• Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

  Muhammad Ali

  Rocks, Climbing, Boxing

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• Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe.

  Chinua Achebe

  Thinking, Nuts, White

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.5, Heinemann

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• Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Heart, Turns, Feels

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• Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

  Ambrose Bierce

  America, Details, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.571, Library of America

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• Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.

  J. G. Ballard

  Farewell, White, Forests

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• Sanford is a little redneck town north of Orlando. It's right off Lake Jessup.Lake Jessup is the most alligator infested lake in the United States and I live literally 5/10ths of a mile north of that lake right off the swamp down here. I've lived here since '94. When I left Nebraska my dad got a job at a private Christian school in West Palm Beach. People will say "You're not really a country boy. You're from Palm Beach, Florida." Well, I moved to West Palm Beach, FL which is a far cry from Palm Beach, FL. There's a reason it's called West Palm Beach.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Christian, Country, Beach

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• If five years from now we solve the access problem, but what we're hearing is all encrypted, I'll probably, if I'm still here, be talking about that in a very different way: the objective is the same. The objective is for us to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and zeros. Whoever they are, whatever they are, I need them.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Talking, Years, Different

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• Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

  Solomon Northup

  Dog, Men, Reason

  Solomon Northup, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Twelve Years A Slave: illustrated Original Edition With Bonus of Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.74, Ageless Reads

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• IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.

  Rumi

  Crazy, Ocean, Eye

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• It's the chauffeur's outfit from hell, right down to the alligator shoes. I was wearing these alligator shoes and this very interesting and haunting chauffeur's outfit, but what really did it for me was the hat. And then, when I eventually get my eye taken out, the gold eye really brought it home for me.

  Dennis Haysbert

  Taken, Home, Eye

  Source: collider.com

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• Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman.

  Homer

  Florida, Grandpa, Biting

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• When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Couple, Two, Dancing

  Interview with Win Butler, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of me and there is not an alligator behind me and there is not a girl sitting at the edge eating a hot dog and if I believe that, then dying would be the only answer because then Death couldn't come and say Peachy to me anymore and after all she has a brother who believes in hope.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Dog, Brother

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• Well, Im wrestling alligators.

  Claire McCaskill

  Wrestling, Wells

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• Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest.

  Charlie Daniels

  Children, Ties, Killers

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• My mom was beautiful; she was supposed to be the original Jane in the original Tarzan movie. They asked her to put her foot in the water and there was an alligator in there, and she wouldn't put her foot in the water.

  Dr. John

  Beautiful, Mom, Feet

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• I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.

  Jack White

  Real, Artist, Water

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• That dreadful alligator attack in Orlando would never have happened if Disney had put up real warning signs, like other Florida resorts do. But wild alligators don't fit the Disney image, so they were no proper warnings, and a child died for no reason.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Children, Real, Florida

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.

  Jerry Reed

  Family, Boys, Ties

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