Snakes Quotes - Page 19

• That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

  Smokey Robinson

  Dog, Nice, Love Is

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• That worries me an awful lot. If people misunderstand our intentions [in Black Snake Moan], especially regarding my character, then they're essentially exploiting an already exploited and abused woman. So it's a huge concern for me.

  Christina Ricci

  Character, Worry, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• If an audience doesn't get that [Black Snake Moan] is a movie about overcoming exploitation, it could come across as incredibly misogynistic. That would be the worst thing in the world for me.

  Christina Ricci

  Black, Overcoming, Would Be

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

  Abraham Verghese

  Slides, Enough, Holes

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.385, Random House India

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• [St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Teaching, Men, Mind

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• I am so tired of criticalness being called discernment. Do you want to know true discernment? Paul said "That your love may abound in all discernment." When you are willing to die for somebody that is when you are actually discerning them. Jesus could call the Pharisees hypocrites and snakes because he went to the cross and died for them. So the next time you are quote "discerning" about somebody ask yourselves the question could you die for them? If you can`t say yes, you're critical because the love of God is to lay down your life for them, and discernment is rooted only in love. Got it?

  John Bevere

  Jesus, Hypocrite, Tired

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• My act now is completely different. I took two years off when I first got with my wife and it was because my old act was all about "Where's the party after this?" I was humping the stool and it's all so disgusting and I was miserable, miserable in a lifeless angry marriage. Then I met my wife and I was completely happy. Like a snake that sheds its skin. I just got rid of all of that negativity.

  Jay Mohr

  Party, Years, Two

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not because they've thrown out their faith, but it's because of their faith they can't reconcile the death penalty with Jesus and their commitment to Jesus.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Jesus, Commitment

  Source: medium.com

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• One of the major hobbies in South Florida is keeping animals that no sane person would want to keep. One of those is snakes. They usually get them when they're small, and when they get too big, they let them go. But there are also people with monkeys, lions, tigers. And they all get away, eventually.

  Dave Barry

  Animal, Florida, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rude, Atheism, Spiders

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.78, Penguin

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• To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant.

  David Livingstone

  Dark, Feet, Gliding

  David Livingstone, Charles Livingstone (1865). “Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries: And of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864”, p.152

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• You guys (Boko Haram) are trying so hard to convince everybody that you're such badasses. But all you've done with this kidnapping is highlight who the real badasses are, the kids you kidnapped. Compared to a teenager who knows that her desire for an education could get her dragged into a snake infested jungle to be sold as a bribe to some demented, stick-chewing cartoon villain but still gets up and goes to class everyday, fully aware of that danger - compared to their courage - I'd say Boko Haram is a bunch of little girls. But, you know what? You don't deserve that compliment.

  Jon Stewart

  Girl, Badass, Teenager

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• Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Needs, Attention, Stories

  Marion Dane Bauer (1996). “Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, 'I think the plastics/and sink them' then 'Where is the sand/man hiding the dirt.' These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder.

  Rae Armantrout

  Spring, Writing, Men

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• I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

  Tim Blake Nelson

  Fishing, Water, Want

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• I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Body, Honest, Emotion

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• I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

  Tracy Morgan

  Strong, Powerful, Eels

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• My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

  Joanna Lumley

  Mother, Dog, Believe

  "Joanna Lumley: Animals Are Just Like Us". Interview with Dan Mathews, www.peta.org. December 6, 2010.

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• I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'

  Ice Cube

  Girl, Simple, Men

  "Ice Cube and Kevin Hart pair up for a ride". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. January 17, 2014.

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• Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Long, Cards, Ems

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• Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.

  Freeman Dyson

  Engineering, Orchids, People

  Freeman Dyson (2015). “Dreams of Earth and Sky”, p.2, New York Review of Books

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• In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.10, Library of America

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• In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Oil, People, Age

  "The Return of the Primitive" by Charles Krauthammer, content.time.com. January 29, 1996.

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• Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

  Mason Cooley

  Garden, Paradise, Dutch

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• The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of the sheep is what wins out.
  The first Commandment is--never let them get anything on you--
  The second: Graft--get privileges others haven't got--worm yourself into confidence
  The Third--seem neat and prosperous--as if you had money in the bank

  John Dos Passos

  Army, Winning, Sheep

  John Dos Passos, Library of America (Firm) (2003). “Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941”

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