Animal Quotes
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I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.
Ian Dunbar -
I'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on.
Kurt Vile
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
J. Paul Getty -
I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.
K. A. Applegate -
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
J. M. Coetzee -
You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds
Dag Hammarskjold -
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis -
In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
Oliver Tambo
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand Russell -
As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.
Ramakrishna -
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
H. L. Mencken -
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash -
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Samuel Butler -
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
Carlos Fuentes
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I'm not going to date a crazy party animal; I'm more into culture. I'd rather go to a museum, travel somewhere, or go to a play. That's more interesting to me than partying at the hottest club.
Jessica Lucas -
I think filmmaking is a strange animal because it's anti-Democratic and collective at the same time, but I think it's all about not trying to know everything better than everybody else but making the right choices.
Niels Arden Oplev -
Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
Jack Horner -
Fame is a very strange animal.
Adam Lambert -
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
Adam Ferguson -
It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
Walter O'Brien
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
Sadie Frost -
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
A. C. Benson -
In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.
H. G. Wells -
You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
Gavin DeGraw