Savage Quotes

• His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn't seem at all surprising that he should be able to pull things from his dreams. In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Eyes
  • Magic
  • Blue

• Our island is this earth; and the most striking object we behold is the sun. As soon as we pass beyond our immediate surroundings, one or both of these must meet our eye. Thus the philosophy of most savage races is mainly directed to imaginary divisions of the earth or to the divinity of the sun.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Earth
  • Sun
  • Savage

• I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

  

  August Strindberg
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Immense

• Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • People
  • Observation
  • Houses

• Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Age
  • Father
  • Savage

• My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • She
  • Wife
  • Boyfriend

• So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Men
  • Black
  • Savage

• Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

  

  Bruce McCulloch
  • Sweet
  • Savage

• When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

  

  Don Kardong
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Justice

• There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Peace
  • Violence

• The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

  

  Plato
  • Athlete
  • Too Much
  • Savage

• Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Violence
  • Savage

• It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barbaric human savage child for a month or so. It was a blast and definitely a great experience.

  

  Leo Howard
  • Great
  • Country
  • Experience

• How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Savage
  • Manners
  • Refined

• The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Savage
  • Conversion
  • Cristianity

• Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'

  

  David Ansen
  • Play
  • Passion
  • Savages

• We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . . . [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags.

  

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky
  • Up
  • God
  • Soul

• I like a lot of ratchet, trap music. Definitely 21 Savage. We need some music like that. ManMan Savage. A lot of the Atlanta scene. But Philly, too.

  

  Lil Uzi Vert
  • Music
  • Savage

• I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.

  

  John Fairchild
  • Fashion
  • Savage

• Now remember courage, go to the door,Open it and see whether coiled on the bedOr cringing by the wall, a savage beastMaybe with golden hair, with deep eyesLike a bearded spider on a sunlit floorWill snarl-and man can never be alone.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Remember
  • Alone
  • Hair

• If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Week

• Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.

  

  Alan Moore
  • May
  • Reality
  • Savage

• I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

  

  Jim Jarmusch
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Progress

• The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Savage
  • Anthropology
  • Mother-In-Law

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