Hunts Quotes - Page 7

• Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices.... Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Healing, Responsibility, Choices

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• I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm.

  Jimmy Carter

  Turkeys, Ducks, Experts

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Our ancestors had to eat whenever food was around. And we're actually still hardwired the same way. The big difference is we don't have to hunt for our food. For us, "hunting" comes down to sliding the milk carton out of the way.

  Mehmet Oz

  Hunting, Differences, Way

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• I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Passion, Sleep, Ideas

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think he turned [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] into a sort of drama, there's too much dark material underneath it for it to be a comedy; it wasn't designed to be a comedy. I think it's a comedy... I think it's a drama that's funny; which is different.

  Sam Neill

  Drama, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than £150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt.

  Anthea Turner

  Witch, Taxes, Cents

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Taken, Character, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need.

  Peter Steele

  Sports, Emotional, Race

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• Any guy that refers to dating women as the hunt or being on the prowl should be evaluated for a number of conditions.

  Dane Cook

  Numbers, Dating, Guy

  Twitter post from Jun 28, 2013

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• People tend to call me names that I can't repeat on basic cable. I will give you a hint. They rhyme with itch, hunt, & bore.

  Chelsea Handler

  Names, People, Giving

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• My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.

  Zoey Deutch

  Baby, Winter, Signatures

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• Men are like lions. We hunt.

  Kevin Hart

  Men, Lions

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• My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.

  Jeff Bridges

  Father, Sea, Bridges

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. January 13, 2010.

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• there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Two, Roots, Light

  Pearl S. Buck (1958). “American Triptych: Three John Sedges Novels”

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• When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind of thing.

  Alice Lowe

  Kids, Would Be, Fossils

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes.

  Dianna Agron

  Halloween, Epic, Tunes

  FaceBook post by Dianna Agron from Oct 29, 2012

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• The hunt is on and brother you're the prey.

  Curtis Mayfield

  Brother, Prey

  Song: New World Order, Album: New World Order

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• Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that readers can find a lot of useful explanation on each page without having to hunt through Bible dictionaries and commentaries and the like.

  D. A. Carson

  Ordinary, Pages, Study

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.

  Otis Redding

  Horse, Singing, Acres

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• The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

  Seneca the Younger

  Travel, Men, Quiet

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• It's been scattered and I had to follow leads. Some stuff was with different family members in various drawers. I find out about more stuff and more stuff [over time]. I won't call it a treasure hunt, but it's like an old Western movie we're you're onto one thing and it turns into another.

  Aaron Brookner

  Treasure, Different Families, Stuff

  "William Burroughs Documentary: Howard Brookner’s Movie Re-Released After Decades Out Of Print". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.

  Jeremy Bonderman

  Baseball, Land, Farming

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• All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.

  Laird Hamilton

  Training, Doe, Body

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis, www.lairdhamilton.com. December 08, 2014.

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• There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Night, Forever

  "The Faces of Fantasy". Book by Patti Perret, 1996.

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• I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and the great game of Hunt-the Complex began, to the entertainment and alarm of a war-shattered and disillusioned world.

  Mary Butts

  War, Games, Firsts

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