Reptiles Quotes - Page 3

• ¿Qué mayor debilidad puede haber que no saber cuál es la fuente del propio ser, de la propia vida, de los propios sentidos, del propio conocimiento, y cuál ha de ser su fin? ¿Qué puede ser más profundamente descorazonador que preguntarse si la propia alma es, tal vez, una cosa material, como una piedra o un reptil, corruptible como estas viles criaturas? ¿No hay más fuerza y grandeza de espíritu en admitir la idea de un ser superior a todos los demás seres, que los ha hecho a todos y a quien todos deben su existencia; de un ser supremamente perfecto, que es puro, que no tuvo principio ni puede tener fin, de quien nuestra alma es la imagen y, por decirlo así, una porción, siendo una cosa espiritual e inmortal?

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Espiritual, Hombres, Ideas

  "Of Freethinkers". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I am allowed no explanation? I am to suffer hell without any account from heaven? In that case, what is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities-the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch? (pg. 98)

  Yann Martel

  Giving, Shining, Bird

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.108, Vintage Canada

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• I'm always keen to use my body in my work, so I'm looking forward to the motion capture for Smaug. Both Gollum and King Kong were primates, whereas I'm playing a serpent, so it'll be interesting - I'll have to tie my legs together, possibly, or else they'll be kind of splayed out to the side as a reptile's should be.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Kings, Ties, Interesting

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• 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

  Futuro, Ciencia, Hombres

  Hugh Miller (1857). “The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed”, p.178

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• Cuando se mira la Tierra desde esa única imagen, la del espacio, es realmente una cosa bastante atractiva. No tengo nada en contra del planeta en sí. Apuesto por el gran cometa o asteroide como forma de limpiar el planeta. El cometa o asteroide de hace 65 millones de años es probablemente lo que nos dio la oportunidad de reemplazar a los reptiles. El mayor entretenimiento que tengo en mi vida es la crónica interna, no necesariamente para el público, de la lenta disolución del orden.

  George Carlin

  Attractive Things, Order, Years

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• The reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life. Looking up at the ancient impassive faces, Kerans could understand the curious fear they roused, rekindling archaic memories of the terrifying jungles of the Paleocene, when the reptiles had gone down before the emergent mammals, and sense the implacable hatred one zoological class feels towards another that usurps it.

  J. G. Ballard

  Memories, Taken, Animal

  J. G. Ballard (1965). “The Drowned World and the Wind From Nowhere”

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• To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest.

  Humphry Davy

  Character, Ambition, Science

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• Así que ahí lo tienen: La naturaleza es un desastre. Pero eso es sólo el principio. Si apartas los ojos de ella un segundo, te matará. Espinas, insectos, hongos, gusanos, pájaros, reptiles, animales salvajes, ríos embravecidos, barrancos sin fondo, desiertos secos, nieve, arenas movedizas, plantas rodadoras, savia y barro. Pudrición, veneno y muerte. Así es la naturaleza. Es un milagro que salgas de tu cabaña, dije. Mi valentía supera mi sentido común, dijo.

  Lee Goldberg

  Ojo, Animal, Ríos

  Lee Goldberg (2009). "Mr. Monk in Trouble", p.70, Penguin

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• At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.

  Werner Herzog

  Pbs, Vapid, Roaches

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.

  Washington Irving

  Native American, Eye, Garden

  "Traits of Indian character". Book by Washington Irving, 1819.

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• Qué ciudades, tan grandes como ésta, se han... ¡prometido la inmortalidad! La posteridad apenas puede rastrear la situación de algunas. El viajero apenado deambula sobre las horribles ruinas de otras... Aquí estaba su ciudadela, ahora cubierta de maleza; allí su senado, ahora guarida de todo reptil nocivo; aquí había templos y teatros, ahora sólo un montón de ruinas sin distinción.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Weed, Cities, House

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 686-88, The Bee, No, IV. A City Night-Piece, 1922.

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• 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, Window

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• El monstruo del lago Ness tampoco existe. El lago Ness no es lo bastante grande como para ocultar un anfibio o reptil de nueve metros durante cientos de años.

  Brian Jones

  Years, Feet, Monsters

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a bird of the ages Triassic, With his antediluvian beak, And many a reptile Jurassic, And many a monster antique.

  May Kendall

  Museums, Profound, Bird

  May Kendall (1887). “Dreams to Sell”

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• 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, Giants, Balls

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• Who are you?" Violet asked. It is confusing to fall asleep in the daytime and wake up at night. "what are you doing with Uncle Monty's reptiles?" Klaus asked. It is also confusing to realize you have been sleeping on stairs, rather than in a bed or sleeping bag. "Dixnik?" Sunny asked. It is always confusing why anyone would choose to wear a plaid shirt.

  Daniel Handler

  Uncles, Fall, Sleep

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• When I take my kids to the zoo in Los Angeles, they always look the longest at the creature that moves the least - especially those in the reptile house. I asked myself: 'Who are the people that are pretty cool but also very still and monotone in their expression?' and I thought of Jose Mourinho.

  Julian Sands

  Soccer, Football, Zoos

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• But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Eye, Clouds, Evil

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.80

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• 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, Novelists, Afternoon

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• 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, Green

  A S Byatt (2011). “A Stone Woman (Storycuts)”, p.11, Random House

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• [St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Teaching, Men, Snakes

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• 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 can not 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, Four

  "The Shadow on The Dial and Other Essays". Book by Ambrose Bierce, www.pub22.net. 1909.

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• I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Grace, Notes

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• Al universo le importamos un bledo. Lo digo muy claramente en la película ["Into the Inferno"]: nuestro planeta es "indiferente a las cucarachas escurridizas, a los reptiles retrasados y a los humanos insípidos por igual".

  Werner Herzog

  Vapid, Roaches, Care

  Fuente: www.rogerebert.com

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

  Dave Eggers

  Pet, Three, Used

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.344, Pan Macmillan

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