Cannibal Quotes - Page 5

• I don’t want to slam somebody else’s religion. I mean as a Catholic, we’re basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?

  Larry Wilmore

  Jesus, Mean, Sunday

  "Larry Wilmore on Race, Politics, and Mormonism". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. August 24, 2012.

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• I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

  Antonia Fraser

  Clever, Men, Brain

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• Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

  Cassandra Clare

  Race, Ducks, Pie

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• I Play Dodgeball with Cannibals (Chapter 2)

  Rick Riordan

  Play, Dodgeball, Chapters

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• Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

  Maurice Sendak

  Childhood, Vomiting, Mouths

  "In the Dumps", www.newyorker.com. September 27, 1993.

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• Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.

  Herman Melville

  Judgement, Missionary, Enlightened

  Herman Melville (2006). “Moby Dick, The Whale: Easyread Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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