Rabbits famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Hallo, Rabbit,†he said, “is that you?†"Let’s pretend it isn’t,†said Rabbit, “and see what happens.
-- A. A. Milne -
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.
-- A. A. Milne -
I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.
-- Alexander Skarsgard -
I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.
-- Anne Lamott -
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
-- Arnold J. Toynbee -
Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
-- Beatrix Potter -
We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."
-- Benjamin Carson -
While Eeyore frets ... ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ...Pooh just is.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.
-- Bernard Darwin -
The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.
-- Big Boi -
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.
-- Bob Beckel -
You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.
-- Brian Mulroney -
The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit, fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives, not taking others'.
-- Brigid Brophy -
Me?" All the crappiness of the day, of the last few weeks, zeroed in on this high and mighty B with an itch, and the scared-rabbit feeling faded.
-- C.C. Hunter -
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
-- Carl Sandburg -
I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.
-- Charlaine Harris -
Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.
-- Charles de Lint -
The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine
-- Charles Hard Townes -
You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think. -Angela the Herbalist
-- Christopher Paolini -
If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it
-- Chuck Jones -
Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus.
-- Cybill Shepherd -
You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer
-- Daniel Quinn -
Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards
-- Darwin Ortiz -
I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.
-- David Lindsay-Abaire -
The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.
-- David Sedaris -
Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.
-- Dean Koontz -
Someone said to me, "How's your rabbit food?" I said, "Fine." ... "How's your vulture food?"
-- Doug Graham -
What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.
-- Eero Saarinen -
We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.
-- Elif Safak -
Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.
-- Etgar Keret -
We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.
-- Friedensreich Hundertwasser -
From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.
-- Garry Wills -
What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members.
-- Gary Yourofsky -
Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.
-- George Horace Lorimer -
So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.
-- Harvey Fierstein -
If the old dog hadn't got distracted by the fire plug, he would have caught the rabbit.
-- Hayes McClerkin -
Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.
-- J. M. Coetzee -
If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.
-- Jack Ma -
Sometimes rabbits, like, turn me on. I don't know why.
-- James Franco -
The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed
-- James Howe -
So, this is a rabbit, I thought. He sort of looks like Chester, only he's got longer ears and a shorter tail. And a motor in his nose.
-- James Howe -
I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake
-- James M. Cain -
Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.
-- Joan Robinson -
I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.
-- Jon Hamm -
We have a puppy named Lucy... two cats... goldfish... and Louis, our lop earred rabbit.
-- Julia Barr -
I was minding my own buisness long before you and the princess started humping like rabbits.
-- Julie Kagawa -
I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally, one is not going to explain to people at large that from time to time one vomits up a small rabbit.
-- Julio Cortazar -
There's nothing else I would rather do, unless there was a profession that involved cuddling bunny rabbits and kittens all day for money.
-- Kat Dennings -
It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit.
-- Kit Williams -
The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.
-- Kit Williams -
The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
-- Kit Williams -
If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.
-- Kit Williams -
The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.
-- Kit Williams -
They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.
-- Koichi Tohei -
If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both.
-- Leonard Nimoy -
The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world.
-- Lloyd Kaufman -
When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.
-- Maeve Binchy -
art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.
-- Margaret Atwood -
He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.
-- Mary Cover Jones -
One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.
-- Mel Brooks -
If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.
-- Mitch Hedberg -
We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.
-- Norman Jewison -
The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.
-- Pete Seeger -
Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate.
-- Richard Adams -
If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.
-- Richard Adams -
I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.
-- Robert Crais -
He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits: This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid. Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.
-- Robert Graves -
Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.
-- Robert Jordan -
I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.
-- Seth Grahame-Smith -
The rabbits though and thought. "If we're normal and Leo is normal, then normal is whatever you are!
-- Stephen Cosgrove -
The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.
-- Steve Aylett -
When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.
-- T. Boone Pickens -
If you go too far down the rabbit-hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are
-- Taylor Swift -
Why is the rabbit unafraid? Because he's smarter than the panther.
-- The Edge -
Better the arrow that missed the lion than the one that killed a rabbit.
-- Thiruvalluvar -
When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
-- Thomas Harris -
Houdini used to pull rabbits out of a hat, but he never tried to make a living out of selling them when he had pulled them out of the hat
-- Tommy Douglas -
We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
-- W. G. Sebald -
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?
-- Zhuangzi -
Let your *need* guide you behavior. *Supress* your instinct to lead... Pursue Rabbit!
-- Cheshire Cat -
When you're speaking very articulately and you're poised and you hold yourself well, that to me seems to indicate a certain way of being in life. You're in a certain place. And, whenever you break up with someone of many years, you tend to go down spiraling out of control, down some rabbit hole of sorts.
-- Daryl Wein -
I'm somewhat diffident about cuffing television on its rabbit ears for not being something else.
-- Edwin Diamond -
Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.
-- Tyler Joseph -
I love the rabbit hole. I spend a lot of time looking at images, Google mapping, etc. I also love to read court transcripts, FBI files, stuff like that. You go through vast, boring stretches, but the voices are always so fascinating and slowly a story begins to emerge. It's very much like playing detective.
-- Zachary Lazar -
Domestic rabbits don't have the sense that God promised animal crackers.
-- Sharyn McCrumb -
I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.
-- James Stephens -
They put me in an office with the TV set up and said "Here's the tape. When you're finished writing your copy for the little trailer you're going to do, you'll come out and show it to us and we set you up to go edit it." I turned it on and it was just this hardcore film and I was like, "Oh my God, I've fallen down the rabbit hole."
-- Julie Davis