Frogs Quotes - Page 12

• Rachel, Rachel, Rachel,” he said, very still and unmoving. “Always jumping to the wrong conclusion. You’re like a frog, you know.

  Kim Harrison

  Jumping, Said, Conclusion

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• And Poppy, remember that someday you will meet a frog who will turn into a handsome prince." "Good," Beatrix said. "Because all she's met so far are princes who turn into frogs." "Mr. Bayning is not a frog," Poppy protested. "You're right," Beatrix said. "That was very unfair to frogs, who are lovely creatures.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Lovely, Handsome, Poppies

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• Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.

  Dean Koontz

  Stars, Children, Twilight

  Dean Koontz (2004). “Midnight”, p.15, Penguin

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• He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wine, Feelings, Madness

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.264, University of Illinois Press

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• I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain remote African tribes there'd be some incredible four day rites of passage ceremony involving tattooing and potent hallucinogenic drugs extracted from tree-frogs, and village elders smearing my body with monkey blood, but here,rites of passage is all about three new pairs of pants and stuffing your duvet in a bin-liner.

  David Nicholls

  Believe, Independent, African Tribes

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.25, Villard

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• A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Animal, Elephants, Wicked

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• But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights flicker and are extinguished (the tigers, the leopard frogs, the plunging dolphin flukes), flicker and are extinguished, by us, by us, we gaze and gaze. Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.

  Margaret Atwood

  Eye, Light, Greed

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• The other raised his club and attacked L, who inexpliciably fell over on his back like an overturned frog.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Clubs, Raised

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• You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett

  Julia Quinn

  Kissing

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• Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he’d turn into a frog, but not the other way around.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Kissing, Promise, Might

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• If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

  Loren Eiseley

  Civilization, Tree, Done

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• Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

  Agatha Christie

  Believe, Paper, Tissues

  Agatha Christie (1993). “A Caribbean Mystery ; A Pocket Full of Rye ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; They Do it with Mirrors”

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• Well the frog men finally got Rosie.

  Art Donovan

  Men, Nfl, Rosie

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• Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.

  Arthur Quinn

  Style, Language, Process

  Arthur Quinn (2012). “Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase”, p.5, Routledge

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• I was genuinely starstruck when I met Kermit the Frog. Like many stars here tonight, he's a lot shorter in real life.

  Bret McKenzie

  Stars, Real, Tonight

  "What they were saying at the Oscars", www.sfgate.com. March 2, 2012.

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• although I have no fish, / I do not want any frog; / Or any elderberries either, / Instead of a bunch of grapes: / Although I have no love, / I do not want anything else, / Whether Love is gracious to me or hostile.

  Hadewijch

  Love Is, Desire, Want

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.335, Paulist Press

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• Barack Obama is the President of the United States, a politician in America, a very religious country, so I understand why he has to pretend to be a religious person himself. I say pretend because, I can only hope that someone as bright as he, wouldn't really believe that people can walk on water and ride a winged horse and rain frogs and you can change water into wine.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Religious, Horse

  "Bill Maher Gets Ridiculous with Religulous". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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• I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets d'un biologiste." There is a risk that in the less severe discipline of criticism the result may turn out to be different; the theories will remain but the frog may disappear.

  Frank Kermode

  Science, Doors, Differences

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• Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they often acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace ... To the Darwinian, the explanation of such facts is obvious. The stage when the tadpole breathes by gills is a repetition of the stage when the ancestors of the frog had not advanced in the scale of development beyond a fish.

  Francis Maitland Balfour

  Science, Animal, Simple

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• There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.

  Ellen Bass

  Integrity, Butterfly, Growth

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• If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Long, Looks

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• We've found that frogs are counting the number of chemicals in the water. If you expose them to two chemicals, there's a slight delay in metamorphosis; if you expose them to ten, there's even more of a delay. No single compound will do this.

  Tyrone Hayes

  Two, Numbers, Water

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• I cleared my throat - it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories.

  Martha Grimes

  Memories, Throat

  Martha Grimes (2006). “Belle Ruin”, New Amer Library

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• The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Life, Cutting, Swings

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

  Stephen Fry

  Drinking, Firsts, Transformation

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.32, The Overlook Press

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