Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator. — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“Stimulated by the juice, I believe, men have even been known to ride alligators.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“When you're up to your ass in alligators, you forget about cleaning the swamp.” — Robert DeBard Copy Share Image
“In order to approximate dinosaurian physiology, the trio of scientists carried out the unenviable task of sticking thermometers in the cloacae of… — Brian Switek Copy Share Image
“Boys, the longer you wait to get my requested prehistoric attack dogs, the more chance we have of people we care about… — Gini Koch Copy Share Image
It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed… — Kelly Brook Copy Share Image
Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks,… — Janice Hahn Copy Share Image
Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
“My love life couldn't be more nonexistent if Julius was all all-girls' boarding school with a moat full of alligators around it.” — Flynn Meaney Copy Share Image
So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
First time I saw an alligator gar I damn near threw up. They ain't natural anything get that big. It's ten feet… — Bukka White Copy Share Image
I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of… — Mike deGruy Copy Share Image
That dreadful alligator attack in Orlando would never have happened if Disney had put up real warning signs, like other Florida resorts… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
It’s so hard for me to sit back here in this studio, looking at a guy out here, hollering my name!—When last… — Ric Flair Copy Share Image
What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a… — S.A. Bodeen Copy Share Image
I've just done a movie - Albino Alligator - with Viggo Mortensen, who's an actor I idolize. He influenced me in a… — Skeet Ulrich Copy Share Image
I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi,… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City."… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water.… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“The Everglades was the only place on earth where alligators (broad snout, fresh water, darker skin) and crocodiles (pointy snout, salt water,… — Michael Grunwald Copy Share Image
“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air--moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh--felt as if it… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image