Frogs Quotes - Page 9

• I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.

  Anne Sexton

  Firefly, Bird, Suffering

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.

  Will Cuppy

  Mistake, Ideas, Honor

  Will Cuppy (1951). “How to Get from January to December”

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• If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Water, Degrees, Too Late

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• What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits?" "I turn you into a hand­some frog.

  Judith McNaught

  Hands, Fit, Turns

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Double Standards”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Self, Weakness, World

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2015). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.147, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• So thirsty," Jack groaned. "So worried,"said the frog. I hope we don't starve to death." "Yes,"said Jill, "not starving to death would be nice." "So would not thirsting to death," said Jack "Thirsting isn't even a word," said Jill "It isn't?" "No." "Then what's the word?" "I dont know. You just can't." "Oh." This is, of course, the kind of inane conversation that occurs when people are slowly losing their minds.

  Adam Gidwitz

  Nice, People, Mind

  Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.71, Penguin

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• It's all very romantic," Gabriel said, and then frowned. "Or it would be, if my brother could get a word out without sounding like a choking frog. I fear he will not go down in history as one of the world's greatest wooers of women.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Gabriel, World

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1267, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a flame of magic inside every stone & every flower, every bird that sings & every frog that croaks. There's magic in the trees & the hills & the river & the rocks, in the sea & the stars & the wind, a deep, wild magic that's as old as the world itself. It's in you too, my darling girl, and in me, and in every living creature, be it ever so small. Even the dirt I'm sweeping up now is stardust. In fact, all of us are made from the stuff of stars.

  Kate Forsyth

  Girl, Stars, Flower

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• And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs, the woodland-scented wind rushed between the leaves and blew around the gray veil that dipped below the fells, swirling up in a mist, blurring the edges of the distant forest. (View from Windermere in the Lake District)

  Susan Branch

  Lakes, Views, Wind

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• You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.

  Zhuangzi

  Summer, Ocean, Ice

  Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs' legs (especially if the frogs are decapitated) and that, on the other hand, any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings (with heads on their shoulders) must be benighted and superstitious.

  William James

  Science, Thinking, Hands

  1907 Pragmatism.

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• Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a very good letter.'Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together.

  Arnold Lobel

  Book, Waiting, Feelings

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• Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste.
  The biologist passes, the frog remains.

  Jean Rostand

  Facts, Grenouille, Biologist

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• Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing things away. A frog lays several million eggs at a sitting. Only a few dozen of these become tadpoles, and only a few of those become frogs. We can let imagination and practice be as profligate as nature.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Artist, Practice, Eggs

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.69, Penguin

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• College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come.
  We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.

  Dan Rather

  College, Wish, Sides

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• Society's only real 'progressives' are the deviants and mutants. Look at evolution - fish who didn't deviate never became amphibians; frogs who didn't mutate never became reptiles; conformist snakes never became mammals , etc. Normal Humans will remain humans, and they'll be subjugated by the digital monsters of the next few millenia.

  Jim Goad

  Real, Snakes, Monsters

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• Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

  Mason Cooley

  Waiting, Tongue

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• The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

  Bion of Borysthenes

  Boys, Rocks, Jest

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• So we have that, where there are moments where it's just Nic Cage and Amber Heard and you're in the car with them and it's not stuff flying at your face but you're literally sitting in the backseat. You're sitting there and it's just sort of interesting. At the same time we're going to throw cars and guns and bullets and frogs and naked people at your face because it's fun and that's the roller coaster. We do write some things for 3-D.

  Todd Farmer

  Fun, Writing, Gun

  Source: collider.com

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• Helping others pulls us out of our own problems. And so does dressing up like frogs and playing leap frog in a Starbucks. Who would've known.

  Misha Collins

  Helping Others, Dressing Up, Doe

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lakes, Culture, Littles

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• I have a brand new favorite for a Disney animated feature coming out next Christmas called The Princess and the Frog. I'm Ray the singing Cajun firefly. New Orleans is my second hometown. I was a deckhand on a riverboat there when I was 18, so I have that Cajun accent down pat. Ray is a lovesick firefly who's near-sighted and falls in love with the Evening Star. Of course, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger will always be favorites of mine too.

  Jim Cummings

  Falling In Love, Stars, Princess

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• You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

  E. B. White

  Jokes, Dies

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• It's unlikely that you were a frog in a past life.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Past, Unlikely, Past Life

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• Wearing green underwear today, I feel like a frog.

  Ashton Irwin

  Underwear, Green, Today

  Twitter post from Sep 17, 2014

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