Animal Quotes
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
J. Paul Getty -
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
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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 -
In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
Oliver Tambo -
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 -
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash -
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
H. L. Mencken
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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 -
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 -
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Samuel Butler -
A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.
Peter Benchley -
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
Carlos Fuentes -
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
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
Jack Horner -
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
Adam Ferguson -
Fame is a very strange animal.
Adam Lambert -
I'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on.
Kurt Vile -
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 -
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
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
A. C. Benson -
I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
Sadie Frost -
If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
Walter Lang -
You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
Gavin DeGraw