Snakes Quotes - Page 18

• The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.

  John Divola

  Skins, Photograph, Shed

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• I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

  Dean Acheson

  Feelings, Watches, Curious

  Harry S. Truman, Dean Acheson (2010). “Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971”, p.275, Knopf

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• Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!

  E.D. Baker

  Journey, Critics, Doomed

  E. D. Baker (2010). “The Frog Princess”, p.74, A&C Black

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• I made $3,000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash. That was a bad situation, because I bought ridiculous stuff. I bought a snake bite emergency kit. Then I said to my friends, "Don't even worry about snakes anymore". My friend stepped on a worm, and I said, "Lay down!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year.

  Ross Perot

  Years, Firsts, Organize

  Quoted in BusinessWeek, 6 Oct. 1986

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• A snake bite emergency kit is a body bag.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Bags

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• I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Scare, Stories

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• Once we were on the set, we each did different kinds of work. I was doing more the technical stuff, the framing and the camera work, and she was working more with the actors. Marjane [Satrapi] and I don't stop speaking once we're on the set. We continue to talk. We define what our roles are going to be on set, because to have a snake with two heads is silly.

  Vincent Paronnaud

  Silly, Two, Cameras

  Source: collider.com

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• The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.

  Robin McKinley

  Country, Dust, Land

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.11, Penguin

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• I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.

  David Attenborough

  Animal, Thinking, Poisonous

  "The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.

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• If I go home and someone, and my child has blood running down her leg and someone tells me that a snake bit her, I'm going out and kill the snake. And when I find the snake, I'm not going to look and see if he has blood on his jaws.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Children, Home

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• If an audience doesn't get that [Black Snake Moan] is a movie about overcoming exploitation, it could come across as incredibly misogynistic. That would be the worst thing in the world for me.

  Christina Ricci

  Black, Overcoming, Would Be

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• That worries me an awful lot. If people misunderstand our intentions [in Black Snake Moan], especially regarding my character, then they're essentially exploiting an already exploited and abused woman. So it's a huge concern for me.

  Christina Ricci

  Character, Worry, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I am so tired of criticalness being called discernment. Do you want to know true discernment? Paul said "That your love may abound in all discernment." When you are willing to die for somebody that is when you are actually discerning them. Jesus could call the Pharisees hypocrites and snakes because he went to the cross and died for them. So the next time you are quote "discerning" about somebody ask yourselves the question could you die for them? If you can`t say yes, you're critical because the love of God is to lay down your life for them, and discernment is rooted only in love. Got it?

  John Bevere

  Jesus, Hypocrite, Tired

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• When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not because they've thrown out their faith, but it's because of their faith they can't reconcile the death penalty with Jesus and their commitment to Jesus.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Jesus, Commitment

  Source: medium.com

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• My act now is completely different. I took two years off when I first got with my wife and it was because my old act was all about "Where's the party after this?" I was humping the stool and it's all so disgusting and I was miserable, miserable in a lifeless angry marriage. Then I met my wife and I was completely happy. Like a snake that sheds its skin. I just got rid of all of that negativity.

  Jay Mohr

  Party, Years, Two

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• If I'm out in the country or something, I'm still spooked by snakes.

  Robert Englund

  Country, Stills, Ifs

  Source: www.wwe.com

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• One of the major hobbies in South Florida is keeping animals that no sane person would want to keep. One of those is snakes. They usually get them when they're small, and when they get too big, they let them go. But there are also people with monkeys, lions, tigers. And they all get away, eventually.

  Dave Barry

  Animal, Florida, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was raised in a pit of snakes/Blink your eyes - I was raised on cake."

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Country, Song, Moving

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Yeah, snakes. They're my fear factor.

  Robert Englund

  Yeah, Factors

  Source: www.wwe.com

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• I grew up in the country on a farm it was whenever someone said even that a snake was eating the chickens or bothering the chickens, we'd kill snakes. We never knew whether that was the snake that did it.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Eating, Grew Up

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• This religion teaches that 6,000 years ago God made the first man out of dust - not even mud - and the first woman out of a bone; that God cursed the whole human race because a snake made the woman eat an apple; that God had a son by another man's wife, and that he had this son murdered in order to keep himself from sending all the human race to hell.

  Charles Chilton Moore

  Son, Men, Dust

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• To look at any thing,
  If you would know that thing,
  You must look at it long:
  To look at this green and say,
  "I have seen spring in these
  Woods," will not do - you must
  Be the thing you see:
  You must be the dark snakes of
  Stems and ferny plumes of leaves,
  You must enter in
  To the small silences between
  The leaves,
  You must take your time
  And touch the very peace
  They issue from.

  John Moffitt

  Spring, Dark, Issues

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• We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put it more accurately, living in this world means choosing, choosing to walk, and the way we choose to walk is infallibly and perfectly expressed in the walk itself. Nothing can disguise it. The walk of an ordinary man and of an enlightened man are as different as that of a snake and a giraffe.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Mean, Men, Ordinary

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”

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• Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake.

  Terry Pratchett

  Oil, Medicine, Found

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