Frogs Quotes - Page 10

• I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog.

  Haruki Murakami

  Shells, Scared, Building

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• So thirsty," Jack groaned. "So worried,"said the frog. I hope we don't starve to death." "Yes,"said Jill, "not starving to death would be nice." "So would not thirsting to death," said Jack "Thirsting isn't even a word," said Jill "It isn't?" "No." "Then what's the word?" "I dont know. You just can't." "Oh." This is, of course, the kind of inane conversation that occurs when people are slowly losing their minds.

  Adam Gidwitz

  Nice, People, Mind

  Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.71, Penguin

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• I went to England to tell jokes, and I wanted to tell my Smokey the Bear joke, but I had to ask the English people if they knew who Smokey the Bear is. But they don't. In England, Smokey the Bear is not the forest-fire-prevention representative. They have Smackie the Frog. It's a lot like a bear, but it's a frog. And that's a better system, I think we should adopt it. Because bears can be mean, but frogs are always cool. Never has there been a frog hopping toward me and I thought, "Man, I better play dead!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world inside itself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Long, World, London

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• With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Artist, Technology, Hype

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• It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Men, Thinking, Light

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• Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy....A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

  Alan Beck

  Cutting, Boys, Hair

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• Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either

  Martin Luther

  Egypt, Names, Creating

  Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.

  Will Cuppy

  Party, Flannels, Red

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• I don't know how many days I worked there [on Star Wars]. The thing I do remember was I somehow got a parking space next to Kermit the Frog. It was Jim Henson's space, with this Kermit the Frog sign. I took a photo of it and sent it to my mom with a caption that read, "Look, Mom. I made it. I got a parking space next to Kermit the Frog." I was always fascinated by the film-set infrastructures.

  John Ratzenberger

  Mom, Stars, War

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• I have a black look I do not
  like. It is a mask I try on.
  I migrate toward it and its frog
  sits on my lips and defecates.

  Anne Sexton

  Anger, Black, Trying

  Anne Sexton, “Again And Again And Again”

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• Frog has no nerves.
  Frog is as old as a cockroach.
  Frog is my father's genitals.
  Frog is a malformed doorknob.
  Frog is a soft bag of green.

  Anne Sexton

  Father, Green, Cockroaches

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

  Carl Sandburg

  Moon, Golden, Lost

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking about millionaire and billionaire executives at pharmaceutical companies, these are people with something to lose if threatened with jail. Frog-march them out of their door in suburbia, handcuffed and surrounded by DEA officers, with their children and neighbours watching.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Children, Dope, Doors

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Frog or pearl, life hid something at the bottom of the cup.

  Mary Butts

  Pearls, Cups, Bottom

  Mary Butts (1998). “Ashe of Rings, and Other Writings”, McPherson & Company

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• There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're going downhill all over the planet. Frogs are susceptible to all kinds of problems, because they require water to breed and their skin is very porous. Their condition is nerve racking.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Water, Skins, Nerves

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.

  Stephen Fry

  Tree, Trying, Bears

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• If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

  Conan O'Brien

  Jumping, Hair, Rocks

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 30, 2006.

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• A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?

  Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

  Eye, Design, Grandfather

  "This Porsche is still driven". Interview with John O'Dell, articles.latimes.com. November 6, 2002.

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• I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

  Ted Turner

  Snakes, Earth, Bunnies

  "Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0" by Michelle Kung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• a local train ... moved gently off up the line with a very singular motion indeed, in which the leap of a frog, the bounce of a pogo-stick, and the canter of a very short fat pony all were brought to mind.

  Honor Tracy

  Mind, Ponies, Lines

  Honor Tracy (1957). “Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey”, New York, Random House [1958

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• The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.

  Robert Jordan

  Dining, Doe, Permission

  Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, Maria Simons (2015). “The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series”, p.421, Macmillan

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• Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cutting, Rose, Toads

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• Do I have a large frog in my hair? I have the sensation that something is eating my brain.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Hair, Brain, Eating

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• I rose from marsh mud
  algae, equisetum, willows,
  sweet green, noisy
  birds and frogs.

  Lorine Niedecker

  Sweet, Rose, Bird

  Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy (2002). “Collected Works”, p.415, Univ of California Press

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