Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Jake Roberts

The snake will always bite back.

There is no way to catch a snake that is as safe as not catching him.

Marlon Brando

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

Kate Upton

I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

Pliny the Elder

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

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.

John Dingell

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

Karl Abraham

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

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.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt.

Steve Irwin

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.

Steve Irwin

Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous.

Ruhollah Khomeini

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Robert E. Howard

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

Suzanne Collins

Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.

Philippa Gregory

When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.

Ramakrishna

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

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.

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

Virgil

There's a snake hidden in the grass.

Willa Cather

I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.

Sarah Palin

These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science.