Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.
Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.
Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.
I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.
I love to cook. And I love food. I'd probably work with animals. Interior design, I'm very into that.
In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness.
Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this guy have a dog?'
What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.
