Lion Quotes
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
Hannah Kent
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I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.
Kathryn Harrison
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Savage as a lion, timid as a rabbit, crafty as a fox...
Lu Xun
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I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.
Eddie Redmayne
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Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
Oliver Herford
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New Domestic Animals. I want to have my lion and my eagle about me, that I may always have hints and premonitions concerning the amount of my strength or weakness. Must I look down on them today, and be afraid of them? And will the hour come once more when they will look up to me, and tremble?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Baltasar Gracian
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When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.
Uday Kotak
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And darest thou thenTo beard the lion in his den,The Douglas in his hall?
Walter Scott
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There's no doubt that 'Lion' is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research screenings all over, in London and America and Australia, and the results were ridiculous, and the crowds were... they just loved the movie, so for me, my job is done.
Garth Davis
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I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.
John Gutfreund
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
Aaron Schock
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For the lion to to prosper the deer must die. All the world is combat.
David Gemmell
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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
Aaron Hill
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Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!
Karen Salmansohn
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I really don't think this show is going to work, ... ...I'd like to see them put a lion or a tiger on the island, but I really don't think that would happen.
Bob Denver
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'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'
L. Frank Baum
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I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
Ingrid Bergman
