Lions Quotes - Page 4

• People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

  Lorne Michaels

  Zoos, People, Laughing

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• The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.

  Branford Marsalis

  Successful, People, Listening

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• The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Marriage, Lying

  Without Feathers "The Scrolls" (1975) See Bible 167

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• When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.

  Milarepa

  Running, Dog, Faces

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• True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless...

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Animal, Noble, Nevertheless

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• There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

  Dennis Hastert

  Clients, Littles, Limits

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• My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.

  Amanda Holden

  Cat, Home, Years

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• That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.

  Bert Lahr

  Hurt, Careers, Feelings

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• It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.

  Barry Sanders

  Sports, Regret, Player

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• There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at the same time they look so cuddly. Can you imagine what humans look like to animals? They must think we're so weird.

  Lee Ryan

  Rip, Animal, Thinking

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• In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.

  Casey Affleck

  Dog, Horse, Animal

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

  Barry Sanders

  Organization, Wish, Teammate

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• You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care.

  Rob Zombie

  Hey, Care, Fine

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• By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

  Rob Zombie

  Time, Art, Done

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• I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Sports, Football, Names

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• As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

  Josh McDowell

  Christian, Talking, Effort

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• I'm like a lion - I roar. If someone betrays me, I won't be a victim. I don't sulk, I get angry.
  I go immediately into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity or pain.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Pain, Insecurity, Let Down

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.

  Kanye West

  Ideas, Important, Teeth

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• The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel

  Ed Markey

  Christian, Chance, Cartels

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• I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

  Dick Dale

  People, Giving, Monkeys

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• Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Kids, Love Is

  '60 Minutes' With Ed Bradley, www.cbsnews.com. December 28, 2003.

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• If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...

  Xenophanes

  Horse, Hands, Cattle

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• I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

  Barry Sanders

  Sports, Winning, Games

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• The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

  Jack Weatherford

  Anger, Pride, Keys

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• Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dragons, Names, Spirit

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