Reptiles famous quotes

The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.
-- A. S. Byatt

#Hair #Mind #Reptiles

FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Science #Reptiles #Legs

You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you cannot even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Years #Leeches #Reptiles

Hiccup: Thank You For Nothing You Stupid Reptile.
-- Cressida Cowell

#Stupid #Reptiles #Hiccups

She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.
-- Dave Eggers

#Pet #Three #Reptiles

The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no repetition of the dynasty of the fish, of the reptile, of the mammal. The dynasty of the future is to have glorified man for its inhabitant; but it is to be the dynasty-"the kingdom"-not of glorified man made in the image of God, but of God himself in the form man.
-- Hugh Miller

#Men #Reptiles #Records

I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars. I released the insects onto the street. And the reptiles. And the mice. I told them, Go. All of you. Go. And they went. And they didn’t come back
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Dog #Cat #Reptiles

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
-- Julia Roberts

#Reptiles #Republican #Dictionary

A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print -Reptiles- you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madam, if that's the way you see it, so be it.'
-- M. C. Escher

#Crazy #Illustration #Reptiles

It might go down better than appearing as a giant reptile encased in a ball of fire and forcing yourself on her.' 'WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BRING THAT UP?
-- Meg Rosoff

#Fire #Balls #Reptiles

Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs.
-- Michael Chabon

#Tuesday #Reptiles #Afternoon

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
-- Ralph Steadman

#Reptiles #Looks #Humans

With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
-- Sappho

#Love #Reptiles #Bittersweet

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?
-- T. H. White

#Men #Years #Reptiles

An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.
-- William Cowper

#Crush #Humanity #Reptiles

I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.
-- Zora Neale Hurston

#Grace #Reptiles #Notes