Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank McCourt

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

Emile Zola

Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.

Helen Mirren

I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

Bertrand Russell

There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you.

Jerry Lawler

When most people get drunk, they see snakes. But, when snakes get drunk, they see Jake Roberts!

James Cameron

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

Frederick Buechner

Five friends I had and two of them snakes.

Frederick Buechner

People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.

Hugo Chavez

Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

C. Everett Koop

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

Cassandra Clare

My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.

Jim C. Hines

That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.

Jay Leno

Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere.

J. K. Rowling

Yes, it's rather funny, really, that next to no-one realized the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher's Stone turned out to be Voldemort's final Horcrux, Nagini

Jessica Savitch

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

Jack Kerouac

Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes.

Harriet Tubman

Never wound a snake; kill it.

Kate Upton

I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes.

Philippa Gregory

When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.

Pliny the Elder

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

Pearl Cleage

You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.

Karl Abraham

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

Juvenal

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

Kanye West

I never seen snakes on a plane

Julian Lennon

I'm one of those people who snake through the crowd, keep my head low. I'm not looking for attention.

Mark Jackson

Python - why settle for snake oil when you can have the whole snake?

Lily Collins

I’m a big fan of the whip... That snake whip was awesome!

John Steinbeck

A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.

Nicolas Cage

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.