Alligators Quotes
54 quotes by 49 authors
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When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down…
— Alexander Skarsgard
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See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.
— Bill Haley
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When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the…
— Jerry Reed
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Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their…
— Jack Hanna
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I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not…
— Jack White
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Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or…
— Janice Hahn
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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, leap the Ohio,…
— Davy Crockett
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If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else…
— Davy Crockett
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The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning…
— Annie Dillard
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You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.
— Phyllis Diller
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Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
— Cordell Hull
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Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head,…
— Susan Orlean
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Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
— Dan Rather
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It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing…
— Karen Russell
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Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.
— Mary Oliver
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Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.
— J. G. Ballard
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The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City." Old Bailey nodded,…
— Neil Gaiman
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If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too…
— Daniel Handler
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Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of…
— Chinua Achebe
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