Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Sedaris

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

Carl Sagan

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

Betty White

I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

Betty White

I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.'

Betty White

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.

Betty White

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.

Charles Manson

What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself. I make little string dolls. I talk to roaches. I'm in jail for nine counts of murder, and I didn't do it. I'm in solitary confinement, may I add.

Bill McKibben

what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.

Bill Maher

Newt Gingrich was campaigning at a zoo this week and he was bitten by a penguin. Newt Gingrich is always campaigning at zoos. Mitt Romney once did a photo op at a zoo. That was a big mistake, because he stood next to the chameleon, and HE changed colors.

Charles Dickens

They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

Charles Spurgeon

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

Alan Moore

American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.

Alan Bennett

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

David Sedaris

Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film."

Catherine Tate

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Mark Cuban

I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.

Charles Lindbergh

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

Chris Brown

Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service.

Dave Barry

All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it.

Dave Barry

...Hell, which as every frequent traveler knows, is in Concourse D of O'Hare Airport.

Caitlin Moran

I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do I square this with the fact that she's constantly walking around in her bra and pants, even at, like, airports and stuff, where even nudists wear a fleece and linen drawstring trousers?

David Walliams

All human life can be found in an airport.

Carol Leifer

Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's.

Charles M. Schulz

I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport.

Bill Maher

Sometimes I'm dragging my ass out to the airport at 8 a.m. on a Saturday and I'm wondering why I'm doing this, but once I walk on stage I know why...because I'm addicted.

Brian Eno

Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.