Menagerie Quotes - Page 2

• I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?

  Elizabeth Smart

  Running, Sex, Heart

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• The process by which the idea for a play comes to me has always been something I really couldn't pinpoint. A play just seems to materialize; like an apparition, it gets clearer and clearer and clearer. It's very vague at first, as in the case of Streetcar, which came after Menagerie. I simply had the vision of a woman in her late youth. She was sitting in a chair all alone by a window with the moonlight streaming in on her desolate face, and she'd been stood up by the man she planned to marry.

  Tennessee Williams

  Men, Play, Ideas

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• Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.

  Austin O'Malley

  Animal, Men, Soul

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• I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Desire, Obsession

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• Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.

  Jimmy Reid

  Vocabulary, Race, Ducks

  "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". www.independent.co.uk. August 12, 2010.

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• The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, Struggle, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.143, Bantam

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• In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

  Dan Fogler

  Crazy, Character, Years

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• Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.

  John Lahr

  Drama, Angel, Glasses

  "Angels on the Verge" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I'm an avid animal lover. When I was 16, I wanted to be a vet or a zookeeper. I grew up with animals. At one time we had between five and eight dogs in the house, with four cats. We're menagerie people.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes, crimson breasts that beat against bars, wings that flapped against their neighbours, blood red, royal blue, gypsy yellow, grass green. The birds were crammed along perches. Macaws hung upside down here and there, batting their white eyes, and small green parrots flittered above our heads in drifts. A hot of cockatoos looked down from on high over the shrill madness, high crested, creamy breasted. The screeching was like laughter in hell.

  Carol Birch

  Laughter, Eye, Yellow

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• Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Animal, Men, Stirring

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• ....he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or to the waves crashing on a beach, uttering that which must be said but which must not be heard by anyone.

  Daniel Quinn

  Beach, Wind, Way

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.20, Bantam

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• We assured Phelan that we were more than happy to let him have you and your menagerie,” Leo retorted. “After that, he said he needed to think.” “About what?” Beatrix demanded. “What is there to think about? Why is it taking him so long to make a decision?” “He’s a man, dear,” Amelia explained kindly. “Sustained thinking is very difficult for them.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.214, Macmillan

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• A frightening menagerie, my emotions are Too many and varied to number Like creatures they crawl and they fly above Tearing my body asunder.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Numbers, Body, Emotion

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• Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Mistake, Struggle

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1642, Manonmani Publishers

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• The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

  Anthony Minghella

  Morning, Growing Up, Kids

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