Quotes about zoo
zoos animal law
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law. Christopher Walken
zoos prison-population jail
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. Angela Davis
zoos animal past
There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there. A. A. Milne
zoos memorable views
In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form. In a word, it was nothing but a zoo, you can't put it better Alexander Lukashenko
zoom losing-yourself persons
If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore. David Levithan
zoos animal wife
Mitt Romney is quite a guy. At one point he and his wife bought a zoo and fired all the animals. David Letterman
zoos happenings
Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo. Paul Simon
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We thought they were going to give him to a zoo or something,
zoos feet america
At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that goes on in America -- a belief that no commercial activities must be allowed inside the park, but permitting unrestrained development outside, even though the landscape there may be just as outstanding. America has never quite grasped that you can live in a place without making it ugly, that beauty doesn't have to be confined behind fences, as if a national park were a sort of zoo for nature. Bill Bryson
zoos average ideas
We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos. Bob Barker
zoos real men
For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is doing to the world, and the animals have retribution. But in the real world, this would not happen. But in the world of 1984, this kind of thing can happen in a story. James Patterson
zoos lions arms
Jeez, was that a lion? Please tell me it’s behind bars.” “It’s a zoo, Iggy,” Nudge said, taking his arms and leading him. “Everything’s behind bars.
zoos opportunity animal
The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal's gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond. John Berger
zoos animal disappoint
The zoo cannot but disappoint.
zoos culture break-out
Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out. Edward T. Hall
zoos monkeys doe
It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous. Kevin Bacon
zoos real nice
Most people are really nice but some stare, like you're some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real feelings. Emma Watson
zoos kids littles
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second. John Irving
zoos animal years
Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal. Jeremy Clarkson
zoos couple house
When you are brought up in a zoo, you know what's going on in the monkey house. You see a couple of monkeys loose and one is President and one is Vice President, you know it's trouble. Monkeys make trouble. Gore Vidal
zoos animal normal
There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo. Irene Dunne
zoos hills fence
Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill? Jesse Helms
zoos weight goats
A good way to lose weight is to put salt on your ass and go to a petting zoo. But stay away from goats because I've seen them fornicate with a mail box. Gary Busey
zoos thinking animal
We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional. Germaine Greer
zoos sides preservation
Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things. Gerald Durrell
zoos rome violence
What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it. Iain Banks
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...The zoo doesn't have to get bigger, it can just get better.
zoos smart stupidity
Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they're smart that amazes me. It's baffling whenever you find someone who's smart - incredible. Soon you'll have zoos for such things. Frank Zappa
zoos men space
Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone. George Harrison
zoos freedom political
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. H. L. Mencken
zoos men atheism
Why do men go to zoos?
zoos animal rude
Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage... more disgusting by nature than maggots oozing out the carcass of a dead animal. Hunter S. Thompson
zoos stupid mean
[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.