Tamer Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been…
— Tori Amos
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Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?
— Dimitris Mitropoulos
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If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting.
— Darrell Waltrip
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To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the…
— David Quammen
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Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!
— Thomas Gray
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For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be…
— Billy Connolly
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My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less…
— Shia LaBeouf
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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It…
— Christopher Walken
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I’ll wait out here until the two of you are finished. Just call out if you need anything. Like a priest, cop, or lion tamer.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain climber what he…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but…
— Aimee Bender
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I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is…
— George Bernard Shaw
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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
— Dorothea Lange
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The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature.…
— Jeanette Winterson
Who Wrote These Tamer Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Tamer Quotes as follows: