Snakes Quotes - Page 10

I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

Ted Turner

Earth, Bunnies, Frogs

"Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0" by Michelle Kung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors.

Steven Wright

Funny, Humor, Mirrors

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Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her a very creepy aura. I didn't want to animate cosmic gowns. Most Medusas you see in the classics have flowing robes which would be mad to even try to animate.

Ray Harryhausen

Hands, Mad, Creepy

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ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

Ambrose Bierce

Science, Funeral, Habit

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.12, University of Georgia Press

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It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.

Victor Borge

Music, Humorous, India

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The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about and upside down, dancing with it a kind of bolero of two snakes twisting and coiling, until the poem has found its right and proper shape.

Marge Piercy

Two, Dancing, Sensual

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The Democrats talked about putting people first. Well, they put people first unless you happen to be a spotted owl or a giant garter snake or some other endangered species and then that seems to have priority. Obviously, you take the bald eagle and things of that sort, of course you're going to make sure that they are saved and that they can live and you're going to take every precaution that you can. But others - we just need a little flexibility.

Dan Quayle

Eagles, People, Priorities

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To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Morning, Crazy, Knowing

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Python - why settle for snake oil when you can have the whole snake?

Mark Jackson

Python, Oil, Settling

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Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

Lewis Carroll

Son, Men, House

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Massage therapists, and others in the holistic arts ... seem to be a particularly gullible bunch. And there are a lot of people who have seized upon that, and marketed their products, their classes, their modalities, and their wild claims to us ... and many of us have fallen for it, hook, line and sinker ... and unfortunately, gone on to convince our clients to buy into it, as well. ... Our profession has turned into the snake oil medicine show.

Laura Allen

Art, Pain, Class

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Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules

Thomas Huxley

Lying, Cradle, Theologian

Thomas Gribble, Thomas Henry Huxley (1871). “The semi-barbarous Hebrew and the extinguished theologian [a reply to T.H. Huxley's Lay sermons].”, p.3

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Society's only real 'progressives' are the deviants and mutants. Look at evolution - fish who didn't deviate never became amphibians; frogs who didn't mutate never became reptiles; conformist snakes never became mammals , etc. Normal Humans will remain humans, and they'll be subjugated by the digital monsters of the next few millenia.

Jim Goad

Real, Monsters, Mammals

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The Devil is a Five-headed
Snake, says the father.
The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one.
And then their hearts burn
with hate for each others -
and they live apart for many years.

Subramanya Bharathi

Father, Hate, Heart

"When I Think Of My People Broken Down". "Journal of South Asian Literature", Vol. 12, No. 1, published by Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, (p. 11), 1976.

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It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Long, Yards, Mowing

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I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on the ground, it turned into a serpent, we both started laughing. We left it there, we hate snakes. We think they're slimy, even though we know they're not.

Daniel Tosh

Funny, Jesus, Hate

"Completely Serious". Comedy album by Daniel Tosh, June 17, 2007.

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Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.

David Fairchild

Cancer, Science, Sea

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My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.

Cassandra Clare

Police, Looks, Phrases

Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.930, Simon and Schuster

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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

Alexander Pope

Song, Lasts, Length

'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 354

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The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Circles, Overcoming, Cost

Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

Douglas William Jerrold

May, Thorns, Prophet

Douglas William Jerrold (1851). “St. Giles and St. James”, p.277

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To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

Anne Sexton

God, Elephants, Want

Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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If there were ever two sentences that you will not respond well to, 'Don't move. There's a snake behind your foot,' is it.

Warren Hutcherson

Moving, Two, Feet

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To Craig's [ Brewer] credit, I felt totally safe on the set [of Black Snake Moan] . And because I felt safe, Sam[L.Jackson] had to protect me. He got upset at all the physical stuff Craig wanted me to do. When I start doing stuff like that, all the screaming and running, I kinda go out of my head. I'm not necessarily in my own body anymore.

Christina Ricci

Running, Upset, Black

Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

Austin O'Malley

Life, Men, Depth

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