Tigers Quotes - Page 21

• Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to have a peculiarly intellectual sanction. Our preference, even as articulated by those who are most mild in their persons, is increasingly for the absolute and extreme, of which we feel violence to be the true sign. The gentlest of us will know that the tigers of wrath are to be preferred to the horses of instruction and will consider it intellectual cowardice to take into account what happens to those who ride tigers.

  Lionel Trilling

  Horse, Wrath, Intellectual

  "The Portable Matthew Arnold " by Lionel Trilling, Viking Press, 1949.

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• One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.

  Ernest Bramah

  May

  Ernest Bramah (1936). “The Kai Lung Omnibus”

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• I used to have lots of tigers. I had all sorts of exotic pets when I had some money. Before I was broke, I had everything. Pigeons and vultures, lions, tigers, and bears. I had it all.

  Mike Tyson

  Pet, Exotic, Lions

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.

  Wole Soyinka

  Skeletons, Forests, Doe

  "Neo-African Literature: A History of Black Writing". Book by Janheinz Jahn, 1969.

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• Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.

  James Lee

  Squirrels, Turtles, Sharks

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• My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I can't be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey.

  French Montana

  Dream, Dog, Couple

  "French Montana wants a pet monkey" by Rob Markman, www.mtv.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I remember my first commercial. This is really great 'Degrassi' trivia: The character Toby on 'Degrassi,' played by Jake Goldsbie, he and I were in both of our first commercial ever when we were four. It was for Tiger Toys, this old Game Boy-type thing. Both of our lines were, 'Mommy, I can do it!

  Charlotte Arnold

  Character, Boys, Games

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• Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he wouldn't go away after I'd finished the short story. I couldn't figure out what he wanted, so I wrote to find out.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Character, Going Away, Adults

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away from tigers? You'd think that if God wanted one thing or the other to happen he'd have engineered it rather better. Maybe he enjoyed the spectator sport?

  Richard Dawkins

  Sports, Thinking, Prey

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• Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.

  Robert Mark Kamen

  Years, Hong Kong, Action

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• As someone once said, covers to a novel are like bars to a cage. You can watch the tiger, the Komodo dragon, and admire it - its heart, its severity. Even when they carry out an ugly act, it's still fascinating.

  Martin Amis

  Heart, Ugly, Admire

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The typical review makes a Teletubby look like a sabre-toothed tiger. You can economize by reading online rather than squandering $4.95, yes, but all you get is people pusillanimously Favoriting and Liking and Friending. Why is there no Hate button? Why?

  Helen DeWitt

  Hate, Reading, People

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• In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

  Tea Obreht

  Memories, Grandfather, Stones

  Tea Obreht (2011). “The Tiger's Wife”, p.3, Hachette UK

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• So many people have bad intentions, so many girls want to hang out [with me] to be someone. I weed those people out of my life. I call them hungry tigers.

  Paris Hilton

  Girl, Weed, People

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• India deliberately aggravated Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis. It destabilized Sri Lanka [by training and arming Tamil militants, including the Tigers] so that it could play a dominant role in bringing Sri Lanka within its sphere of influence.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Sri Lanka, Play, Training

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• Just so you know, I hate camping. I'm not so much appreciating the fact that there's no bathroom out here. 'Nature calls' while walking in nature is on my list of least favorite things. You tigers, and men in general, have it so much easier than us girls.

  Colleen Houck

  Girl, Hate, Men

  Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Curse: Tiger Saga”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• My wife assures me she didn't sleep with Tiger Woods, but how can I believe her?

  Tim Piper

  Believe, Sleep, Wife

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• I have Tiger Blood running through my vains.

  Charlie Sheen

  Running, Blood

  "David Arquette hurt in head-on crash". www.mirror.co.uk. March 6, 2011.

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• I got tiger blood man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

  Charlie Sheen

  Men, Blood, Dying

  YouTube Channel "ABC News"/"Exclusive: Charlie Sheen Says He's 'Not Bipolar but 'Bi-Winning' (02.28.11)", www.youtube.com. February 28, 2011.

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• A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Sheep, Years

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• A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile

  Lytton Strachey

  Promise

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• Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new Tiger tanks to restore situations where only large bodies of troops could have any prospect of success.

  Erich von Manstein

  Gun, Technology, Tanks

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• It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Government, Iron, Wife

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• Some is more equal than others, as is well known. (Tammananny Tiger)

  Walt Kelly

  Well Known, Equal, Wells

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• What I like to do is to try to win as many tournaments and as many majors as I can, and with him [Tiger Woods] in the field, it just gives it more credibility, whatever it is I am able to accomplish.

  Phil Mickelson

  Winning, Giving, Trying

  Interview with Craig Heatley, old.augusta.com. April 3, 2007.

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