Lizards Quotes

• The lizard isn't listening and the lizard doesn't care.

  Seth

  Listening, Care

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• It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

  Tom Robbins

  Sexy, Peaceful, Careless

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.280, Bantam

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• I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!

  Jim Morrison

  Kings, Doors, Can Do

  "Fictional character: Jim Morrison". "The Doors", 1991.

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• You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

  Ken Kesey

  Sunshine, Sky, Appreciate

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• Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.

  John Muir

  Squirrels, Color, Bird

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Hawks, Born

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Shadow and Bone”, p.126, Hachette UK

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• Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

  William Shatner

  Mean, Appreciate, Listening

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• Being turned into a lizard can really mess up your day.

  Rick Riordan

  Mess

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

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• I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.

  Nicolas Cage

  Sharks, Denver, Panthers

  "The Heat-Seeking Panther" by Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. July 22, 2010.

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• Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Gratitude, Cheer

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• Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Democracy, Eating

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• I come in peace...Take me to your lizard.

  Douglas Adams

  Take Me

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• You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

  R. K. Milholland

  Love, Rocks, Perfect

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• To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Fall, Writing, Trying

  Lawrence Durrell, Earl G. Ingersoll (1998). “Lawrence Durrell: Conversations”, p.29, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache

  Chinua Achebe

  Lying, Thought Provoking, Ache

  Chinua Achebe (2017). “The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease”, p.226, Penguin

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• I go where the lizards tell me.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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• I always had an affinity for lizards. I've always felt somewhat close to them. They're reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times.

  Johnny Depp

  Feelings, Reptiles, Affinity

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• The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

  Chinua Achebe

  Tree, Praise, Said

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Nov 08, 2014

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• The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Lying, Long, Sun

  Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

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• The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Running, Knowing, People

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• We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes;
  Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Snakes, Hip Hop

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• Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.

  Seth Godin

  Brain, Shut Up

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• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

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• When you are in a creative or appreciative zone, you literally have no access to your inner lizard, to that fear-based, non creative, shrieking little beasty who's so afraid you're going to be a bag lady.

  Martha Beck

  Creative, Bags, Littles

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• In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.

  Dave Hickey

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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