Tony Gilroy (Anthony Joseph Gilroy) Quotes

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

Tony Gilroy

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• I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either!

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Friends
  • Animal
  • Same

• The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Political
  • Animal

• The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Soul

• 'Animal Ark', was when I was fourteen years old, and it was an ITV children's program, and I did an episode called, 'Bunnies in the Bathroom.' And I'm not sure if it was my finest hour.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Children
  • Animal
  • Old

• I seem to be landing a lot of roles with animal interactions, which is amazing.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Amazing
  • Animal
  • Seem

• I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Myself

• Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Life
  • Up
  • Animal

• I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.

  

  Sam Simon
  • People
  • Help
  • Animal

• Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Animal

• Man has been adjudged a social animal.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Social

• 'You only blinched inside,' said Pooh, 'and that's the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Small
  • Animal

• It broke out with matchless fury. The rapid vehement fire. Him we praise above the earth, Fire, the fiery meteor of the dawn. Above the high gale, Higher than every cloud. Great his animal.

  

  Taliesin
  • Great
  • High
  • Earth

• Here was irrefutable proof that he was using the Holocaust to speak of the extermination of animal life. Doomed creatures that could not speak for themselves were being given the voice of a most articulate people who had been similarly doomed. He was seeing the tragic fate of animals through the tragic fate of Jews. The Holocaust as allegory.

  

  Yann Martel
  • People
  • Life
  • Animal

• It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Moral
  • Animal
  • Logic

• Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.

  

  Kyle Gallner
  • Different
  • Drama
  • Animal

• The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.

  

  Jennifer 8. Lee
  • Animal
  • Chinese

• The island is named Oooguruk, an Inupiaq word meaning 'bearded seal,' an animal plentiful on the shores of Alaska's North Slope.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Animal

• People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

  

  David Attenborough
  • People
  • Animal

• I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Career
  • Animal

• A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Earth
  • Animal
  • Blood

• The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Way
  • Class

• People can hold liberal and conservative dogma points at the same time. They're not living their lives via platforms. They're living their lives. The whole thing is an awfully tired construct.

  

  Jon Stewart
  • Tired
  • Lives
  • Construction

• Happy, happy, happy pair!None but the brave, None but the brave,None but the brave deserves the fair.

  

  John Dryden
  • Happy
  • Brave

• Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Animal