Possums Quotes

• Horses are like giant possums that you can ride and they stare at you and have terrifying boners

  Jeffrey Rowland

  Horse, Giants, Boners

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• You can't put this possum in a cage

  George Jones

  Cages

  Song: I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair, 1992

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• Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

  Jim Hightower

  Dinner, Six Packs, Seven

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• I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Stress, Mean

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• I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous.

  Mem Fox

  Baby, Animal, Thinking

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• I'm not really scared of a lot of things. I'm scared of possums. And I'm scared of raccoons sometimes, it depends on how big it is - I'm scared of the smaller raccoons because the bigger ones are slower.

  Vince Staples

  Scared, Sometimes, Raccoons

  "Interview: Summertime '16 With Vince Staples". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Animal, Stronger

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• I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.

  Chris Pratt

  Games, Weird Things, Courses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?

  Bill Watterson

  Hey, Faces, Your Face

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1987.

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• No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad." -Nastasya

  Cate Tiernan

  Ideas, Costumes, Officers

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• When possums were introduced in 1837 to start a fur industry, no one predicted that these Australian neighbours would naturalize with destructive enthusiasm, wreaking havoc on gardens and bush alike. Up to 20 million possums a year were killed during the height of the fur trade, but this barely checked their rapid expansion.

  Bee Dawson

  Garden, Years, Expansion

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• I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.

  Bill Mollison

  Years, Fields, Forests

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

  John Shelton Reed

  Country, School, Scotch

  John Shelton Reed (1993). “My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture”, p.15, University of Missouri Press

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• No parents. You have Uncle Jesse, forever in overalls. Then there's Bo and Duke. What do they do? I never saw them working for food or gas money. You can only kill so many possum.

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Uncles, Humor

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