Snakes Quotes - Page 6

• I went out in my yard and saw a snake, so I got really scared, and I came back inside to get a shovel, and beat the hell out of that snake. Then I didn't have cable for a week.

  Charlie Viracola

  Yards, Saws, Scared

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• My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.'

  David Milch

  Spiritual, Religious, Sleep

  "The Misfit". Interview with Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 2005.

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• When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.

  Philippa Gregory

  Namesake

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• I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.

  Jimmy Carr

  Country, Real, Simple

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• I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

  Alan Arkin

  Real, Order, People

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• Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.

  Robert Jordan

  Time, Holes

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.754, Macmillan

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• One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Moving, Past

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr

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• I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

  Kate Upton

  "Kate Upton Talks Friends, Fears And Guilty Pleasures For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2013.

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• When cornered, a rattle snake can become so angry it's been known to bite itself, which is exactly how I feel in traffic and relationships.

  Dov Davidoff

  Traffic, Feels, Known

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• When most people get drunk, they see snakes. But, when snakes get drunk, they see Jake Roberts!

  Jerry Lawler

  People, Drunk, Jake

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

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• I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

  Steve Irwin

  Nature, Fear, Koalas

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

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• Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

  Guru Nanak

  Ignorance, Self, Rope

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• Sasuke: Snakes can sense things through temperature, and they can also do it with their sense of smell by passing the smell in the mouth." Itachi: You've learnt a lot...Dr. Snakes

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Smell, Drs, Mouths

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• An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Character, Mean

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• A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician. You can only get a little of his time because he spends so much time covering up that no one will know that he is a thief. A hard-working crook will-and can-get those birds by the dozen, but right down in his heart he won't depend on them-hates the sight of them.

  Al Capone

  Hate, Hard Work, Heart

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• The primary factor that enables our government to peddle economic snake oil is the dollar's unique role as the world's reserve currency, and our creditors' willingness to preserve its status. By buying up dollars and loaning them back to us through Treasury debt, productive countries give American politicians cart blanche to play Santa Claus.

  Peter Schiff

  Country, Unique, Play

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• Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we’d lost, they would have gouged out our eyes and thrown us naked onto hot coals and poisonous snakes for all the cheering and hugging at the end, strangers hugging like the end of The Omega Virus when Steve Sturmine finds the antidote.

  Daniel Handler

  Cheer, Eye, Finding Love

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.68, Egmont UK

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• We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, History, Cobras

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• He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Giving Up, Wrath

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• Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)

  Douglas Adams

  People, Drs, Biting

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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• What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Flower, Earth, Littles

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• The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!

  Steven Weber

  People, Voting, Tails

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

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• If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Creeps, Slander, Wells

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.55

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• It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

  Anthony Trollope

  Art, Writing, Literature

  Anthony Trollope (1871). “Ralph the heir. With illustr. by F.A. Fraser”, p.425

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• Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Class, People, Way

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