Hunting Quotes - Page 25

• It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin "You're insane." -Claire

  Rachel Caine

  Hurt, Thinking, Insane

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• May you find good hunting, swift running, and shelter when you sleep. (Leafpool to Ashfur, page 1)

  Erin Hunter

  Running, Sleep, Shelter

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• Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Silly, Animal, Might

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• He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Cells, Splinters

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.280, Anchor

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• I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Sports, Supportive, Way

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal”, p.259, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Soldier, Half, Dozen

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Hunting party," Horace said Both Halt and Will looked at him sarcastically. "You think?" Will said. "Maybe they found the deer and brought him back to repair him.

  John Flanagan

  Party, Thinking, Deer

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• My best artist friend is definitely Jason Aldean. He and I really get along great and are really great friends. It's fun to tour with a buddy and somebody that I just enjoy hanging out with. If we weren't touring together, we'd be hunting in the off-season still and knocking around doing stuff, certainly.

  Luke Bryan

  Fun, Artist, Together

  "Luke Bryan Reveals His Memorable Spring Breaks, Best Buds and a Celebrity Apprentice Freakout". Interview with Michael Bialas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

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• I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't like to feel that I'm being hunted down. I've always liked to do my own hunting when it comes to meeting women.

  George Clooney

  Normal, Type, Old Fashioned

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• There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

  Marie Curie

  Truth, Science, Errors

  "The Commodity Trader's Almanac 2007". Book by Scott W. Barrie and Jeffrey A. Hirsch, November 6, 2006.

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• We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Real, Gun, Self

  "Social media abuzz over Piers Morgan vs. Alex Jones" by Josh Levs, Ben Brumfield, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2013.

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• I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Water

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• It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sports, Humans

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• I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!

  Rashida Jones

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

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• The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

  Christopher Lasch

  Family, Diversity, Fidgeting

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• I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

  Gus Van Sant

  Movie, Actors, Filmmaking

  Interview with Kimberly Gadette, www.oregonlive.com. May 18, 2011.

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• With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

  Gus Van Sant

  Blow, Laughing, Robins

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 5, 2003.

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• Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  War, France, Accordions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport... I would say most hunters are Christian men.

  Luke Scott

  Sports, Christian, Men

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• I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.

  Wilbur Smith

  Beach, Islands, Years

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• When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Book, People, Criticism

  "Exclusive: J. Michael Straczynski Talks About... Well, Everything". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. February 1, 2011.

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• I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou.

  George Strait

  Utah, Texas, Mules

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• I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

  Cass Sunstein

  Believe, Gun, Self

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• I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

  Jesse Ventura

  Doing You, Shapes, Way

  "Jesse Ventura Hunting Remarks Draw Fire". abcnews.go.com.

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• You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Night

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