Otters Quotes

• Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

  Henry Williamson

  Long, Water, Hunters

  Henry Williamson (1960). “The Henry Williamson animal saga”, Macdonald and Jane's

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• We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

  Richard Bach

  Fun, Games, Modern Life

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• The more 'otter it is, the more 'otter otters likes it

  Brian Jacques

  Likes

  Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.70, Penguin

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• Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Giving, Bored

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• It'll be all right, my fine fellow," said the Otter. "I'm coming along with you, and I know every path blindfold; and if there's a head that needs to be punched, you can confidently rely upon me to punch it.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Rely Upon, Needs, Path

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

  Amory Lovins

  Nature, Crow, Pelicans

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• The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Swimming, Light

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over?

  Bill Murray

  Girl, Sunset, Good Day

  Groundhog Day, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.

  William O. Douglas

  Men, Animal, Rivers

  "Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U.S. 727". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 19, 1972.

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• The more Discovery Channel you watch, the less chance you have of ever meeting a woman. Because it fills your head with odd facts that can come out at any moment. "Hello. Did you know Hitler was ticklish? That sea otters have four nipples? Wait - don't run away!"

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Running, Discovery

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• Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

  Mark Twain

  Knowledge, Rose, Information

  Mark Twain (2008). “Roughing It”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.

  Ted Turner

  Christian, Religious, Sea

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• I like an otter. I like a sea lion. I like a walrus. That's my favorite version of a sea creature.

  Nick Kroll

  Sea, Lions, My Favorite

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.

  Eban Goodstein

  Rain, Home, Butterfly

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• Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who - well - something of that sort.

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Wells, Chosen

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• I sat on cushioned otter-skin:
  My word was law from Ith to Emain,
  And shook at Invar Amargin
  The hearts of the world-troubling seamen,
  And drove tumult and war away.

  William Butler Yeats

  War, Heart, Law

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the community where they lived: Pikachu, Metapod, and Wigglytuff were names more familiar to them than otter, beetle, and oak tree.

  Richard Louv

  Character, Eight, Average

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Years, Play, Dykes

  "Dick Van Dyke Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. October 23, 2010.

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• Why are you crying?" shivered the otter. "Because I am cold!" shouted the gnome. "Then why are you shouting?" chattered the otter. "Because," yelled the gnome, "when I shout it gets part of the cold from the inside out.

  Stephen Cosgrove

  Cold, Cry, Shouting

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• Many of our tribe went to the cliff each night to count the number killed during the day. They counted the dead otter and thought of the beads and other things that each pelt meant. But I never went to the cove and whenever I saw the hunters with their long spears skimming over the water, I was angry, for these animals were my friends. It was fun to see them playing or sunning themselves among the kelp. It more fun than the thought of beads to wear around my neck.

  Scott O'Dell

  Fun, Animal, Night

  Scott O'Dell (2016). “Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Complete Reader's Edition”, p.106, Univ of California Press

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• I don't want to be buried in the ground, rotting, with all those worms. What I would love is to have my body dropped where you have those big icebergs and the water is so cold and pure, to be eaten by a polar bear or a seal or an otter.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Love Is, Water, Rotting

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• When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope.

  William H. Gass

  Style, Slides, Compliment

  Source: theuntranslated.wordpress.com

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• Otter is the most brilliant mix of facts ancient and modern about the otter species and its vulnerability to man's seemingly insatiable need to hunt the poor animal for reasons other than survival. I am sure the book will help to ensure that the hunting of otters will never return to this country-and I hope other lands will follow this example . . . A fascinating and illuminating book.

  Virginia McKenna

  Country, Book, Hunting

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• Step aside? I step aside for nobeast, whether it be a hallowed hedgehog, an officious otter, a seasoned squirrel, a mutterin' mole or a befuddled badger!

  Brian Jacques

  Squirrels, Moles, Hedgehogs

  Brian Jacques, Peter Standley (2002). “Taggerung”

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• That whole thing has been overstated by environmentalists. First of all, what is it, rocks and snow? C'mon, what is that, you want that? Go to Canada my friend. Believe me, rocks and snow are overrated. I've seen otters - they look better covered in oil.

  Jon Stewart

  Believe, Rocks, Oil

  "Nightline", 2001.

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