Tigers Quotes - Page 6

• Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.

  Naveen Jain

  Mom, World, Today

  "Dear CEOs, Celebrate Failure" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2011.

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• Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wall, Ideas, Long

  News Conference, www.jfklibrary.org. June 28, 1961.

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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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• Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Nature, Philosophy, Sleep

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from May 27, 2016

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• Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a true Tigress never backed down from a fight. Don't you know anything? When she's in heat, she avoids everything male. Now run!

  Gena Showalter

  Running, Powerful, Fighting

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Animal Instincts”, p.124, Harlequin

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• Four will Become Two, Lion and Tiger will Meet in Battle, and Blood will Rule the Forest.

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Blood, Two

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• Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I don’t want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the Angel of Death or the phone calls from John the Baptist.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Depression, Real, Angel

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.125, Vintage

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• When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

  Herman Melville

  Beauty, Ocean, Heart

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.459

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• He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Running, Knowing, Dare

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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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• An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

  Stendhal

  Play, Tables, Pistols

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.440, Tyché

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• Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.

  Amy Tan

  Eye, Night, Fire

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.246, Penguin

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• The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Heart, Apollo

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1097, Oxford University Press

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• And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.

  James A. Baldwin

  Sky, World, Trouble

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• There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances. 'Did he bite you?' said Father. 'No,' said Frances. 'Did he scratch you?' said Mother. 'No,' said Frances. 'Then he is a friendly tiger,' said Father. 'He will not hurt you. Go back to sleep.

  Russell Hoban

  Mother, Hurt, Father

  Russell Hoban “BEDTIME FOR FRANCES”

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• Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Two, World, Remember

  Alexandre Dumas (2015). “THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Classic French Literature”, p.128, 谷月社

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• The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first.

  John Vaillant

  Long, Track, Firsts

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• Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life – of my grandfather’s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again.

  Tea Obreht

  Running, Children, Lying

  Tea Obreht (2011). “The Tiger's Wife”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.

  Stephan Pastis

  Distance, Bars, Love Your Family

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• In case you still haven't figured it out, he loves you. Your tiger will be back in the morning, and you can thank me anytime. Now, do I have to paint another picture for you, or do you think you can take it from here by yourself without screwing up?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Morning, Love You, Thinking

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2013). “Kiss An Angel”, p.237, Hachette UK

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• An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.

  Laini Taylor

  Next Week, Ideas, Growth

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.98, Scholastic Inc.

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• He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was that evil? And ants? They killed. No, the jungle wasn’t evil. It was indifferent. So, too, was the world. Evil, then, must be the negation of something man had added to the world. Ultimately, it was caring about something that made the world liable to evil. Caring. And then the caring gets torn asunder. Everybody dies, but not everybody cares.

  Karl Marlantes

  Caring, Men, Evil

  Karl Marlantes (2010). “Matterhorn”, p.264, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.565, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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