Tigers Quotes - Page 5

• As the cherub is to the angel, so the cat is to the tiger.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Cat, Angel, Cherubs

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2001). “The Tribe of Tiger”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Dog, War, Skins

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.13, Xist Publishing

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• They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians!

  Lydia M. Child

  Tyrants, Justice, Diversity

  "An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Chapter VI, utc.iath.virginia.edu. 1833.

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• That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.

  V. K. Krishna Menon

  Expression, Justice, Diversity

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• Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

  Zhuge Liang

  Leadership, Art, War

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• When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Cat, Long, Looks

  "How to Hide Your Cat from the Landlord: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Living in Harmony with a Compatible Feline in Smaller Spaces". Book by Jasmine Kinnear (p. 87), April 6, 2006.

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• If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one.

  Max Gunther

  Sports, War, Giving

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• How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.

  Haruki Murakami

  World, Do You Love Me, Enough

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• Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing to worry about, and the other half telling you how six months ago their Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin, but that it's okay now because he's off the life support machine and they've discovered he can communicate with eye blinks.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Uncles, Eye

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• You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are.

  Italo Calvino

  Flower, Eye, Winter

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.

  John Vaillant

  Fall, Impact, Piano

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• He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Often Is, Secret, Tails

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• I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.

  Aime Cesaire

  Horse, Children, Rain

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• Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.

  Bill Maher

  Care, Woods, Defeat

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• Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Angel, Snakes

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2056, Ballantine Books

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• Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

  Bill Watterson

  Painting, Vans, Ifs

  "Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1992.

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• A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

  Aravind Adiga

  White, No Friends, Dangerous

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.178, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Toby smiled and started to speak, but Josh adjusted his hold on Tank and reached back, covering Toby's mouth. "Wait," Grace said. "I think he was going to actually use words." "Yeah, but trust me, you don't want to hear them." Toby pulled Josh's hand away. "Are you my new mommy?" Grace's mouth fell open in shock, and Toby giggled at the sight. "Okay, Tiger," Josh said. "You know I love the sound of your laugh, probably more than any sound in the world, but I will squash you like a grape if you say that to one more woman today.

  Jill Shalvis

  Thinking, Sight, Hands

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• What's the biggest thing you've zapped with a fireball?' I asked. 'That would be a tiger,'said Nightingale. 'Well don't tell Greenpeace,' I said. 'They're an endagered species.' 'Not that sort of tiger,' said Nightingale. 'A Panzer-kampfwagen sechs Ausf E.' I stared at him. 'You knocked out a Tiger tank with a fireball?' 'Actually I knocked out two,' said Nightingale. 'I have to admit that the first one took three shots, one to disable the tracks, one through the driver's eye slot and one down the commander's hatch - brewed up rather nicely.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Eye, Two, Track

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• I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

  Amy Chua

  School, Thinking, Parent

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• The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, New Year, Spring

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.

  Jet Li

  Art, Dragons, Different

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• When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.

  Norm MacDonald

  Kids, Golf, Men

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• Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. The town I grew up in had many vacant lots; when I go back now, the vacant lots are gone. They were a luxury, just as tigers and rhinoceri, in the crowded world that is making, are luxuries. Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

  John Updike

  Art, Exercise, Men

  "A Few Words In Defense Of The Amateur Reader" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. February 19, 1984.

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• You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Fire, Play, Elephants

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