There is nothing so eloquent as the rattlesnake's tail.
I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for 'Serena.'
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
Life in a box was unbearable. How did humans stand it?
Anderson: Down here they say rattlesnakes don't commit suicide.
A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.
I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.
What is with these guys? Where's the thrill in watching snakes eat? I certainly didn't thrill in watching humans eat.
You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
Somewhere, a rattlesnake strike makes the dance begin. Three hawks float in the light blue sky overhead. Crows caw and the sweet seduction of lavender fills my head. And she waltzes through my thoughts.
You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said. Humans don't like that. They view it as a sign of ingratitude. I never asked anyone to feed me. That doesn't seem to matter to them.
My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.
I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
If it’s danger you seek you can go to war, blow the whistle on someone powerful, piss off someone unhinged, walk in a field during a lightning storm, tease a rattlesnake, or lose yourself in the right embrace. Some people live for it, others suffer...
