Snakes Quotes - Page 8

• St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake.

  Conan O'Brien

  Guy, Firsts, St Patrick

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• A lot of people who work with wildlife work with wildlife to satisfy their own egos. And I don't really agree with that. What I do is get in nice and close to the animal to make the animal look good. My aim in this world is to make that brown snake, that crocodile, that koala, that red-backed spider, that black widow, look good. That's my job. I have absolutely no problem with my ego or my staff's ego.

  Steve Irwin

  Jobs, Nice, Animal

  Source: www.reptilesmagazine.com

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• If you came into the theater believing in the talking snake, it's kind of hard to leave the theater still believing in the talking snake.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Talking, Kind

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• I commend you on all you've done for PETA, wrestling the one-eyed trouser snake with your bare hands, gently cuddling it in your arms, and nurturing it back to health.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Wrestling, Humor

  Comedy Central Roast, August 14, 2005.

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• My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Knives, Numbers, Space

  "Sloane Crosley on rubber animals and seeing through celebrity crushes". Interview with Ryan Vlastelica, www.avclub.com. October 1, 2015.

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• I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc.

  Henry Rollins

  Appreciation, Thinking, Animal

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

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• The world used to think we are a land of snake charmers and black magic. But our youth has surprised the world with its IT [information technology] skills. I dream of a digital India.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Powerful, Thinking

  "India: Five unusual messages from Narendra Modi's speech" by Geeta Pandey, www.bbc.com. August 15, 2014.

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• From snake - charmers, we are now a nation of mouse- charmers. Our youngsters are shaping the world with the click of a mouse with their feats in the IT sector.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, India, World

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• There's a snake hidden in the grass.

  Virgil

  Grass

  Eclogues no. 3, l. 93

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• In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Color, Elephants

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• [Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social
  Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie.

  Chuck Robb

  Funny, Lying, School

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• There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  War, Struggle, Racism

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• Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere.

  Jay Leno

  Government, Swamps, Cleaning

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• I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.

  Britt Ekland

  Children, Three, Spiders

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• My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.

  Mem Fox

  Mother, Blow, Doors

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• I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Beautiful, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.

  David Sobel

  Nature, Children, Spring

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• All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Art, Media, Drunk

  Song: Poses, Album: Poses, 2001

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• … what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like “Structured Analysis and Design”, “Software Engineering”, “Maturity Models”, “Management Information Systems”, “Integrated Project Support Environments” “Object Orientation” and “Business Process Re-engineering”.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Maturity, Engineering, Names

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• I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Humanist

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people.

  Pat Nixon

  People, Hearing

  1973 On Watergate. Letter to a friend, quoted in Julie Nixon Eisenhower Pat Nixon (1986).

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• Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the fires of greed and war; His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display - indicating that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma.

  Gary Snyder

  War, Cutting, Animal

  Gary Snyder (2009). “Back on the Fire: Essays”, p.125, Counterpoint

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• Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Kings, Devil, Gold

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• I'm a tiger when I want love, but I'm a snake if we disagree.

  Jethro Tull

  Animal, Want, Tigers

  Song: Bungle in the Jungle

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• I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.

  Criss Angel

  Jobs, Fire, Names

  Criss Angel (2009). “Mindfreak: Secret Revelations”, p.18, Harper Collins

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