Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“I was raised in the desert and always appreciated the way its landscape gives you a chance to see what's coming. In… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“A relationship is like being in a forest, where snakes lurk awaiting the chance to entice.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and… — Robert Pierce Copy Share Image
The President wants to talk about a terrorist named bin Laden. I don't want to talk about bin Laden. I want to… — Malik Zulu Shabazz Copy Share Image
The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind;… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption; Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man; Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The snake, the rat, the cat, the dog... How you gonna see 'em if you livin' in the fog? — DMX Copy Share Image
I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them. — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich… — David Milch Copy Share Image
Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled up that you can't tell which is which until you've shot 'em… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
