Lions Quotes - Page 14

• One of the greatest sins in any story is false suspense. The kind of 'suspense' that disintegrates the moment you give your reader one second to think about it. And it's an easy trap to fall into, so watch carefully for it. If your story hinges on the question, 'Will Superman be pushed so far in his battle against Lex Luthor that he'll have to kill him?', or if your big cliffhanger moment is, 'Wow, is Spider-Man really dead this time?', then I understand Food Lion is hiring.

  Mark Waid

  Book, Fall, Men

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• Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Zhivago, Being There, and Trainspotting.

  Frederick Lenz

  Kings, Doctors, Crow

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• If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.

  Xenophanes

  Horse, Oxen, Atheism

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• I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.

  Frank Miller

  Home, Writing, Privacy

  "Frank Miller Talks SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR, the future of 300, Reincarnating Robocop, Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, and More at Comic-Con". Interview with Hunter Daniels, collider.com. July 28, 2014.

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• People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

  Marsha Norman

  Song, Heart, People

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• Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Thinking, Done

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.66, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Of all animals, the outward form of the Lion is the most striking ; his look is bold and confident; his gait proud; and his voice terrible ; and from his great strength and agility, is usually styled the king of beasts.

  William Pinnock

  Kings, Animal, Voice

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• Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion's tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers' more pious brethren.

  Fred Rodell

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

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• We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a family to stand up to it; all the more obligation on those of us who have nothing left to lose. At any age it is better to be a dead lion than a living dog - though better still, of course, to be a living and victorious lion - but it is easier to run the risk of being killed (or fired) in action if before long you are going to be dead anyway. This freedom seems to me the chief consolation of old age.

  Elmer Davis

  Running, Dog, Men

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• Animal crackers in my soup Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop Gosh oh gee but I have fun Swallowing animals one by one In every bowl of soup I see Lions and Tigers watching me I make 'em jump right through a hoop Those animal crackers in my soup When I get hold of the big bad wolf I just push him under to drown Then I bite him in a million bits And I gobble him right down When their inside me where it's dark I walk around like Noah's ark I stuff my tummy like a goop With animal crackers in my soup.

  Shirley Temple

  Fun, Dark, Animal

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• The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.

  Will Cuppy

  Zebras, Believe, Fall

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

  Robert E. Howard

  Future, Dark, Men

  Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.128, Del Rey

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• It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

  Robert E. Howard

  Dark

  Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.128, Del Rey

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• George Burns was more athletic than you think he was. And he was a very social man. He loved people, he enjoyed life. He worked at living. Old George was a social lion, he got around and did things. That's the key right there. It starts with your brain.

  Jack LaLanne

  Men, Thinking, Years

  "Jack LaLanne Dies: Who the Fitness Guru Really Was" by John Robbins, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2011.

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• While you make pretty speeches
  I'm being cut to shreds
  You feed me to the lions
  A delicate balance.

  Thom Yorke

  Cutting, Balance, Speech

  "Song: 'Like Spinning Plates'". 2001.

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• Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

  Ivan Panin

  Faces, Goddess, Talons

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• The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.

  Isak Dinesen

  Grieving, People, House

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• I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.

  John Gutfreund

  Wife, Social, Attractive

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• The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense of pride, because if you log on and say, "Oh I was just in San Diego and I was in a park and I saw a lion," the flurry of replies on average is just like--wow! All these existential questions about what it means to be an African, and never having seen a lion at home, but having seen a lion here. Everything you say turns into this real philosophical debate--it's incredible in so many ways. And it's an invigorating place to be.

  Chris Abani

  Real, Philosophical, Mean

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• I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Eye, Infinite Time

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• It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through my oppressive teenage years and when I turned 18 I escaped. Like Aslan I was finally free.

  Christina Ricci

  Teenage, Years, Childhood

  "Christina Ricci's New Tattoo", www.femalefirst.co.uk. April 8, 2007.

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• Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

  Frida Kahlo

  Art, Surprise, Shirts

  Frida Kahlo, Carlos Fuentes (2008). “Frida Kahlo: National Homage 1907-2007”, Editorial Rm Rio Panuko

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• Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants - a whole menagerie - and if my family had a crest, you know what would be on it? A blintze. I mean it. All the good things in my life are measured in blintzes because by us it's not a party if there isn't a blintze.

  Gertrude Berg

  Family, Party, Food

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• I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot - I want to start my own dynasty eventually.

  Big Sean

  Want, Dynasty, Mascots

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up rivers to get at the hippos. Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great. I am she who tosses trees Instead of spears. The ostrich is my pillow And the elephant is my footstool! I am Nhamo Who makes the river my highway And sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds!

  Nancy Farmer

  Ostriches, Elephants, Rivers

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