Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodney Dangerfield

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

Mark Haddon

...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.

Princess Margaret

[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch.

Emma Watson

Most people are really nice but some stare, like you're some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real feelings.

John Irving

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.

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.

Jane Goodall

The voice of the natural world would be, 'could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it than when you start interfering''

James Wolcott

I understand the people-watching, but I've never done it where people have to race to three different shows, from here to there. I mean, the biggest zoo I ever faced was Comic Con, and Comic Con takes place in one big hangar.

Daniel Craig

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

Samuel Butler

History is a bucket of ashes.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

Alan Cumming

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

Aristotle

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Corita Kent

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

Frank Barron

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Christian Morgenstern

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

Horace

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

Richard Baxter

We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

Rick Warren

It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.

Rodney Mullen

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

Kathryn Lasky

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

Peter York

I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order.

Paulo Coelho

It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.

Philip Emeagwali

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

Sean O'Casey

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.