Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

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.

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!

Elizabeth Warren

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

Barbara Ehrenreich

It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

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.

Terry Pratchett

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Terence McKenna

We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.

L. Ron Hubbard

Moses and the crooked snake... that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol.

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.

Ramakrishna

As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

Laurie Anderson

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

Theresa May

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes.

Kate Upton

I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

John Dingell

My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

Mahatma Gandhi

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

Mahatma Gandhi

The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

Mahatma Gandhi

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

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.

Dean Acheson

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Bear Grylls

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.