Salamanders Quotes

• Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fire, Water, Buckets

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.196, 谷月社

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• History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Flames, Soul, Evolution

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 57), 1986.

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• Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal that begins its life in the water, but ends it on land - already, that's pretty weird. But, also, a lot of them are incredibly tiny and look wildly improbable. They have funny little toes, they stretch their throats into weird bubble shapes when they croak, and some of them are poisonous to the touch. I think kids from the twenty-second century might mythologize amphibians the way kids today mythologize dinosaurs.

  Annalee Newitz

  Crazy, Kids, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Seems, Impediments

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• I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.

  Moby

  Stupid, Toxins, Toads

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.

  Thom Yorke

  Mean, Eye, Self

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• A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Three, Tails

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye

  Thom Yorke

  School, Eye, Lazy

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• I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

  Ted Turner

  Snakes, Earth, Bunnies

  "Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0" by Michelle Kung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• ...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Men, Oil

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• I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.

  Salvador Dali

  Writing, Doubt, Lions

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• caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.

  Barbara Hurd

  Nature, Adventure, Space

  Barbara Hurd (2005). “Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.

  Ricky Gervais

  Death, Suicide, Cat

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• What was I up to, you may ask? I certainly didn't want to meet Monsieur Evil again or creepy old Lord Salamander.

  Rick Riordan

  Evil, Creepy, Up To You

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I dived for it, caught it three inches above the cement, and found myself face-to-face with the salamander. Ruby-red eyes regarded me with mild curiosity, black lips parted, and a long, spiderweb-thin filament of a tongue slithered from the salamander’s mouth and kissed the sphere’s glass in the reflection of my nose. Hi, I love you, too.

  Ilona Andrews

  Love You, Eye, Reflection

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.17, Penguin

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• Across from me at the next row of supports Jim raised his hand and touched his fingers to his thumb a few times, imitating an opening and closing beak. Negotiate. He wanted me to engage a lunatic who had already turned four people into smoking meat. Okay. I could do that. “Alright, Jeremy!” I yelled into the night. “Give me the salamander and I won’t cut your head off!” Jim put his hand over his face and did some shaking. I thought he was laughing, but I couldn’t be sure.

  Ilona Andrews

  Cutting, Night, Hands

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.16, Penguin

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• Even in Madison’s day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison’s Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.

  Jeffrey Toobin

  Practice, Looks, Massachusetts

  "Drawing the Line". www.newyorker.com. March 6, 2006.

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