Snakes Quotes - Page 17

• When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

  Steven Wright

  Owning A Pet, Adorable, One Day

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• Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.

  Terry Pratchett

  Simple, Keys, Games

  "Wyrd Sisters". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath my feet and became biting snakes, similes fled from my grasp like frightened deer, taking all meaning with them. All was alien, and amidst the hanging, entangling creepers of this foreign grammar, all sound became a cacophany. I feared for myself, for my health and sanity, but then I thought of my purpose, of where I was and who I was, of pain and I pressed on.

  Vikram Chandra

  Pain, Feet, Sound

  Vikram Chandra (2011). “Red Earth and Pouring Rain”, p.277, Faber & Faber

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• He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.” “Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.

  William Goldman

  Sports, Pain, Revenge

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• I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Lying, Love You, Evil

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nice, Twists, Enchantment

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• An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!

  Jerome Lawrence

  Men, Ideas, Water

  "Inherit the Wind". Play by Jerome Lawrence, 1955.

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• I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he was certain of one thing, that nothing worse would happen to him all day. 'Course they made him eat a bowlful of hairy centipedes before they hung him, so maybe that claim was a bit presumptive.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Men, Used

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.

  Ani DiFranco

  Games, Names, Apples

  Song: Adam And Eve, Album: Dilate

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• I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.

  Lucinda Williams

  Commitment, Strikes, Pentecostal

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• Everybody has to play a side because if you play both sides you a snake if you not a peacemaker.

  Cormega

  Play, Sides, Peacemaker

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Hands, Law, Healthy

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 151, 2004.

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• The kundalini energy is often compared to a snake that is coiled up. Because it is coiled up it can spring very quickly. It can jump and extend itself very far.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spring, Buddhism, Energy

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• Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a poisonous snake.

  John Bosco

  Companion, Poisonous, Bites

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• My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.

  Steve Jobs

  Mother, Teacher, School

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• We instinctively fear snakes, but we appear not to be afraid of fast cars, which are a real danger now. This suggests our emotions were shaped by our evolutionary environment not the one we grew up in.

  Steven Pinker

  Real, Car, Emotion

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• Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.

  Wesley Strick

  Church, Legs, Used

  "Fictional character: Max Cady". "Cape Fear", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. - through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.

  William Carlos Williams

  Weed, Flower, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.455, New Directions Publishing

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• Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?

  Toni Morrison

  Games, Lions, Ants

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• Every king sleeps, but not every king wakes up as king! The snakes of the intrigue crawl around during the night! The cleverest king is the least sleeping king!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Sleep, Night

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• It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.

  Etgar Keret

  Reading, Writing, Fighting

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• People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Energy, Use

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• I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

  Frank McCourt

  Leaving, Skins, Looks

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• I'm one of those people who snake through the crowd, keep my head low. I'm not looking for attention.

  Julian Lennon

  People, Attention, Crowds

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

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• My fear in life, I don't have any kind of specifics like snakes or spiders or anything but I think if I was covered in buttermilk naked running down the street being chased by Gandalf, I'd say, or I don't know, I'm just making it up!

  Theo James

  Running, Thinking, Naked

  "‘Divergent’ Interview: Theo James Talks Personal Fears & Complex Characters". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. March 17, 2014.

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