Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.

John Maynard Keynes

The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

John Maynard Keynes

Businessmen have a different set of delusions from politicians; and need, therefore, different handling. They are, however, much milder than politicians, at the same time allured and terrified by the glare of publicity....You could do anything you like with them, if you would treat them (even the big ones) not as wolves and tigers, but as domestic animals by nature, even though they have been badly brought up and not trained as you would wish.

John Lothrop Motley

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

John Lennon

Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.

John Lancaster Spalding

In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.

John le Carre

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

Katherine Dunn

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals...

Leona Lewis

I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat animals, so I won't wear them.

Leona Lewis

I am vegetarian, so I don’t have clothes, shoes or bags made from leather or suede or any animal products. Shoes are hard to find. These are fake Uggs. And I’ve got a pair of vintage boots, which are PVC.

Leona Lewis

I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products.

Leona Lewis

Animal testing is needless, especially in cosmetics.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

Julie Klausner

There are good intentions behind many peoples conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But its hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an extremist way of eating.

Joy Harjo

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

Joy Williams

You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them across the long familiar ground that in that moment seems so glorious, so charged with beauty, strange. In their jaws you are carried so effortlessly, with such great care that you think it will never end, you long for it not to end, and then you wake and know that, indeed, they have not brought you back.

Joseph Murray

Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations.

Joseph Pilates

Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.

Justin Bieber

I'm really an animal guy. I express myself in different ways as an animal.

Josh Billings

If animals had reason, they would act just as ridiculous as we menfolks do.

Karl Lagerfeld

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.

K. D. Lang

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

Pamela Anderson

I'd rather bare skin than wear skin.

Pamela Anderson

What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.

Pamela Anderson

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

Pamela Anderson

The more [animal products] you remove from your diet, the better you feel. The difference between vegetarian and vegan is huge. I feel so much better as a vegan.

Ouida

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.

Julie Walters

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

Julian May

We have people who are healers and those who posses a certain animal magnetism.

Margot Robbie

My spirit animal is a monkey. Because I have really long arms and I like being up high.

Maria Shriver

I like cookies, any cookie you put in front of me - animal cookies, sugar cookies, anything crunchy.