Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Honnold

The simple facts of Chadian life - what it takes to survive in that kind of climate with nothing but a hut and some animals - stunned me. And this made me realize, perhaps for the first time, how easy my life was compared to those of people in less privileged societies.

Jane Goodall

I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.

Jack Smith

We did get permits to take some of those animals out and retrain the rest of them.

Diane Ackerman

It's animal by animal that you save a species.

Edward Abbey

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

Aristotle

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

Eddie Izzard

And theres others like taxidermist! You cant just go, Oh, I was just working at the chip shop, and I just started stuffing animals with sand, you know? Youve gotta want to be! I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. (mimes stuffing an animal) I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so its really quite tight.

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.

Paul Sereno

We think that area was pretty well maxed out so far as the number of large animals you could put into that environment.

Ayrton Senna

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Amber Allison

You have to have personality and show that you are respectful and that you have responsibility and dedication to what you are doing.

Randy Schekman

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

Slavoj Zizek

The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.

Preston LeMaster

Four years of hard work and dedication is finally paying off.

Christina Rossetti

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Rabindranath Tagore

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

Jane Campion

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

Alfred Nobel

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is stronger than knowledge.

Colleen McCullough

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

Derek Walcott

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Anita Shreve

Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?

Rene Descartes

Reason is nothing without imagination.

Thomas Cole

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Seth Lloyd

Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.