Cannibal Quotes - Page 2

• Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

  Ivan Reitman

  Girl, Elements, Firsts

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

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• I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

  Beatrice Dalle

  Passion, Character, Extremes

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• Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

  Laini Taylor

  Sharks, People, Fetus

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Men, Boys

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.208, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Heaven, Bears

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.425

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• You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Mother, Teacher, Kings

  Astrid Lindgren (1998). “Pippi Goes to School”

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• I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

  James Beard

  Believe, Food, Adversity

  James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.

  Jim Benton

  Running, Mean, Vampire

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• Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

  Walter Benjamin

  Girl, Baby, Book

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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• Come, my pretender, my fritter,
  my bubbler, my chicken biddy!
  Oh succulent one,
  it is but one turn in the road
  and I would be a cannibal!

  Anne Sexton

  Would Be, Eating, Chickens

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• Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

  Ted Turner

  People, Died

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• You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

  Doris Lessing

  Wise, Years, Etc

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

  Henry Miller

  Farce, Leprosy, Saws

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.156, New Directions Publishing

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• In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Race, Fellow Man

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• When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.

  Peter Kreeft

  Wise, Dog, Men

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• Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.

  Helene Cixous

  Love Is, Wake Up, Destined

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• Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

  Richard E. Grant

  Acting, Roles, Break

  Interview with Karen Jaehne, filmscouts.com.

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• People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Golden Notebook

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sex, Swings, Romance

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• I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

  William P. Young

  People, Situation, Raised

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• The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a certain Captain Murderer. This wretch must have been an off-shoot of the Blue Beard family, but I had no suspicion of the consanguinity in those times. His warning name would seem to have awakened no general prejudice against him, for he was admitted into the best society and possessed immense wealth. Captain Murderer's mission was matrimony, and the gratification of a cannibal appetite with tender brides.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Names, Blue

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller”, p.146, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village

  Sam Levenson

  Naked, Village, Walking

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• Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Practice, Diversity, May

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• We cannibals must help these Christians.

  Herman Melville

  Christian, Helping

  Herman Melville, D. H. Lawrence (2013). “Moby-Dick (Unabridged) + D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick”, p.48, e-artnow

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• It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

  Mark Twain

  Eye, Men, Heaven

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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