Claws Quotes
183 quotes by 157 authors
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick…
— Charles Baudelaire
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks…
— A. S. Byatt
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.
— Oscar Wilde
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The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth,…
— Lewis Carroll
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
— Wislawa Szymborska
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Nature, red in tooth and claw.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there…
— George Orwell
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To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living…
— Fred Bear
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If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro
— Bruce Fogle
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As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in…
— Thomas Huxley
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Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort…
— Victor Hugo
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If anyone tells you that you can't achieve your dreams, or puts you down, make your hand into a claw and tell them you're a…
— Lady Gaga
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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with…
— Victor Hugo
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Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent
— Klaus Kinski
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When the Batman TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman.
— Eartha Kitt
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In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman in Batman: The…
— Eartha Kitt
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The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star, stone, seed, flowing…
— Starhawk
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I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized.
— Robert Englund
Who Wrote These Claws Quotes
157 authors contributed a total of 183 Claws Quotes, led by these top contributors: