Quotes of: Animating Keyword

Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

William Greider

The cost to reconnect animals to live in natural settings without human support is a debt that many animals in transition must honor with their lives.

Young Tim

If you're a wildlife filmmaker and you're going out into the field to film animals, especially behavior, it helps to have a fundamental background on who these animals are, how they work and, you know, a bit about their behaviors.

Mike deGruy

That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just becaus...

Hocus Pocus

Television wasn't getting rid of animals, but they were no longer cast as creatures that were omniscient and heroic. They were talking horses like Mr Ed or an absurdist pig like Arnold Ziffle...Just like the heroic animals in silent films became come...

Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend

But because humans are intensely social animals, they also faced a recurring set of crucial social evolutionary challenges. These evolutionary challenges include (1) evading physical harm, (2) avoiding disease, (3) making friends, (4) gaining status,...

The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think

-Would you wish us to invest it for you? -No, I would like you to set up a trust for dumb animals. -What kind of dumb animals do you have in mind, Miss Donahue? -Oh, stray dogs. Rats. Birds. -We could still invest it for you. Then the animals would g...

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Altamirano: [about native boy] Don Cabeza, how can you possibly refer to this child as an animal? Cabeza: A parrot can taught to sing, Your Eminence. Altamirano: Ah yes, but how does one teach it to sing as melodiously as this? Cabeza: Your Eminence....

The Mission

In our day, there are stresses and fractures of the human-animal bond, and some forces at work would sever it once and for all. They pull us in the wrong direction and away from the decent and honorable code that makes us care for creatures who are e...

The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them

If you walked into your local convenience store and bought a package of cigars, you would notice that it carries a label warning of the potential dangers of cigar smoke. Yet research suggests that cigar smoking poses a hazard only to moderate to heav...

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others

Yet on some level we do know the truth. We know that meat production is a messy business, but we choose not to know just how messy it is. We know that meat comes from an animal, but we choose not to connect the dots. And often, we eat animals and cho...

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

The street was full of animals, milling around uncertainly. When animals are in a state of uncertainty they get nervous, and the street was already, as it were, paved with anxiety.

Feet of Clay

Every species embodies a solution to some environmental challenge, and some of these solutions are breathtaking in their elegance.

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

Fire and paper - they do not mix well, n'est pas?" "Perhaps they mix too well.

Hellboy Animated Volume 1: The Black Wedding

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

The Reptile Room

Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.

The Souls of Animals

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life; I should not be honest otherwise.

Scepticism and Animal Faith

I’m a party animal. And that animal is a bear, during the winter months.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

I don’t have to be logical. I’m a leopard. We’re considered wild animals, you know. (Spoken by Megan.)

The Orphanage of Miracles