Tamer Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

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
Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself. — Johann Gottfried Herder
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
If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting. — Darrell Waltrip
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
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
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
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
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. — George Bernard Shaw
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
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
Iâ€™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
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
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
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
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. — Dorothea Lange
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: