Quotes of: Wild-animals Keyword

Flounder: May I have ten thousand marbles, please?

Animal House

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Alphonse de Lamartine

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

Alan W. Watts

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.

Charles Babbage

If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?

Tom Snyder

The thing about animals is that they don't judge you. They accept you the way you are.

Wendy O. Williams

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Zoe Saldana

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

David Attenborough

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

Dave Rowntree

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

Emma Thompson

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

John Hench

Right and wrong are superstitions; your desires, however, are real. Those who cannot achieve their desires, or who despair of doing so, often compensate by constructing imaginary frameworks. For example, if you wish to live in a world in which no one...

Contradictionary

Youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and...

A Clockwork Orange

I do not particularly like the word "work.” Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think this is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they h...

Floodplain Risk Management: Proceedings of an International Workshop, Hiroshima, 11-13 November 1996

Ritually abusive groups also convince children that something evil has been put inside them. For example, a child is made to believe he or she has a "black heart" - seeing the abuser holding an animal heart and then feeling severe chest pain while it...

Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse

Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them for our attention; things expose themselves to the sun or retreat among the shadows, shouting ...

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of "the mad woman of the house." And universal history is the gigantic and thousand-year effort to go on putting order into that huge, disorderly, anti-animal fantasy. What we call reas...

An Interpretation of Universal History

Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because it's optimistic, but because it can't take ideals seriously in the first place. The prevailing atti...

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Cats are true carnivores. While you may choose a vegetarian lifestyle, don't assume it's healthier for your cat also. Cats aren't able to convert beta-carotene into vitamin A the way we can. They must get vitamin A from animal tissue (called preforme...

Twisted Whiskers: Solving Your Cat's Behavior Problems

Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or ...

Untimely Meditations

Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that turned away from a reality that seemed too painful to face, while virtually every revolution for peace and justice has been made possibly by a group o...

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