Animal Quotes · Page 199

Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.

— Robin Williams

Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.

— Woody Allen

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

— Erving Goffman

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

— Malcolm De Chazal

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

— Homer

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic…

— Edward Abbey

I wanted to do a show about a character that was an innocent, and so I focused on a sea sponge because…

— Stephen Hillenburg

“Not only was [her dog] a good companion, he was also like a permission slip to be more present in the world.”

— Andrea Lochen

To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day. Touched by the family, cuddled…

— Daphne Sheldrick

The entire animal rights movement in the United States reacted with unfettered glee at the Ban in England ...We view this act…

— Wayne Pacelle

Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!

— Adela Popescu

Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on…

— Michele Bachmann

Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity…

— Swami Vivekananda

Luis is right there.” I point to the corner of the yard, where my little brother is the centre of attention doing…

— Simone Elkeles

Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest…

— Temple Grandin

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they…

— Agatha Christie

A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.

— John Holmes

If you don't like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.

— Johnny Depp

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

— Cesar Millan

“Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.”

— Anonymous

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

— Philip Reeve

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog - keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

— Alfred de Vigny

“The bliss of stroking an octopus’s head is difficult to convey to most people, even to animal lovers.”

— Sy Montgomery

Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.

— Thom Jones

I just don't think I've had the desire yet to write a vicious animal - like a dog-gone-bad or anything - where…

— Sara Gruen

Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.

— Robert Ardrey

“Biology keeps culture on a leash, which is why you can’t teach a dog to play poker, never mind all those lying…

— Gregory Cochran

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals…

— Jared Diamond

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I have deliberately arranged my life so that I see pictures of cute animals on the Internet every day.

— Michelle Dean

Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of…

— Wendell Berry

There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part…

— John Cleese

I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview.

— Gary Larson

In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

— George Graham Vest

A dog, however nice he is, and sweet-tempered, doesn't have much of a range of options. A human being does.

— Tenzin Palmo

If you see an animal and you can't tell if it's a skunk or a cat, here's a good saying to help:…

— Jack Handey

If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if…

— Muhammad

Dogs will never cheat on you. Dogs will never be mean to you. Dogs will only ever love you. Date a dog.

— Anonymous