Snakes Quotes · Page 14

A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so…

— Cameron Dokey

And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand.…

— Vikram Chandra

The Democrats talked about putting people first. Well, they put people first unless you happen to be a spotted owl or a…

— Dan Quayle

In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously…

— Eban Goodstein

Once we were on the set, we each did different kinds of work. I was doing more the technical stuff, the framing…

— Vincent Paronnaud

Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish…

— A. Whitney Brown

To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long: To look at this green…

— John Moffitt

The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a…

— Bear Grylls

“But don't worry," she continued. "Most snakes don't want to hurt you. If you're out in the bush and a snake comes…

— Bill Bryson

I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages…

— Kenneth Patchen

“I bite off the fingers and spit them out. Lord Loss screams obligingly. One of the snakes digs its fangs into my…

— Darren Shan

People who keep a large snake in their apartment building, which happens quite a bit, all of a sudden, within two summers,…

— Henry Rollins

“Everything in Australia is trying to kill you, haven't you heard? Half of the ten deadliest snakes in the world live in…

— Rosalind James

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all…

— Anonymous

The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind…

— Kabir Bedi

We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side…

— Will Cuppy

In the Middle Ages, psychosis may have involved visions of the devil, snakes, or witches. In the 21st century, it can involve…

— Zeynep Tufekci

No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy…

— Katherine Mansfield

POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find…

— Ambrose Bierce

“There once was a kindly farmer who found a viper freezing on the ground in the snow. Please help me, the poor…

— Rachel Caine

[Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking,…

— Chuck Robb

I made $3,000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash. That was a bad situation, because I bought…

— Mitch Hedberg

Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings…

— Gary Snyder

“There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex…

— Marlene Zuk

Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait,…

— William Carlos Williams

That worries me an awful lot. If people misunderstand our intentions [in Black Snake Moan], especially regarding my character, then they're essentially…

— Christina Ricci

When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not…

— Shane Claiborne

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever…

— Anonymous

The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“John Deck was a snake fancier. He had only been rattler-bit a few times. At an early age he'd had his own…

— David Quammen

Her partially open lips now opened wide, and her soft, fragrant tongue entered his mouth, where it began a relentless search for…

— Haruki Murakami

“The rather uncomfortable feeling most of us have when we're around snakes is evidence of how this ancient experience continues to influence…

— Daniel Gardner

Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted…

— Thomas Harris

You guys (Boko Haram) are trying so hard to convince everybody that you're such badasses. But all you've done with this kidnapping…

— Jon Stewart

What are you doing now?" Al questioned "Seeing if your circumcision is gone? It is. My expression went blank, and Trent hesitated.…

— Kim Harrison

I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life,…

— Alan Arkin

Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run…

— Anonymous

There's a line I love in Conan The Barbarian where someone says, "That used to be another snake cult, now I see…

— Errol Morris

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the…

— Mark Twain