Zoos Quotes - Page 5

• A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal - of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania - but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place. Animals are far more flexible than we realize. IF they weren't, they wouldn't have survived. But my opinion about zoos came after research. Initially I had the opinion that most people have, that they are jails.

  Yann Martel

  Animal, Jail, People

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• I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big Silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined.

  Mike Tyson

  Bullying, New York, Powerful

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• If I was to really get at the burr in my saddle, it's not politics - and this is, I think, probably a horrible analogy - but I look at politicians as they are doing what inherently they need to do to retain power. Their job is to consolidate power. When you go to the zoo and you see a monkey throwing poop, you go, 'That's what monkeys do, what are you gonna do?' But what I wish the media would do more frequently is say, 'Bad monkey.'

  Jon Stewart

  Jobs, Thinking, Media

  "Charlie Rose" Interview, charlierose.com. September 29, 2004.

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• I can definitely tell you what viewers can expect from Season 2 [of 'Zoo']. It picks up right where Season 1 left off - the gang facing this wall of animals charging at a car. And so, it'll be satisfying in that way. The cliffhanger in Season 1 just kind of went to black screen. It picks up right where that left off. And from there on, the stakes just continue to rise in the season, and I think it's really adrenaline-filled.

  James Wolk

  Wall, Thinking, Animal

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• Why do men go to zoos?

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Atheism, Positive Atheism

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• ...si caes en el foso de un león, la razón por la que el león te hará pedazos no es porque tenga hambre -ten por seguro que los animales del zoo están ampliamente alimentados- ni porque esté sediento de sangre, sino porque has invadido su territorio.

  Yann Martel

  Fall, Animal, Tears

  Yann Martel (2012). "La vida de Pi, ilustrada", p.73, Canongate Books

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• I'm not going to / let a little thing like the world stand in my way. / Why should I? I understand it / as much as I understand penguins / and I still go to the zoo.

  Matthew Dickman

  World, Littles, Way

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• Viajando por Estados Unidos, es fácil ver por qué a menudo se piensa que los estadounidenses son estúpidos. En el zoo de San Diego, cerca del hábitat de los primates, hay una exposición con media docena de gorilas de tamaño natural hechos de bronce. Cerca hay un cartel que dice PRECAUCIÓN: LAS ESTTUAS DE GORILA PUEDEN ESTAR CALIENTES. Se mire por donde se mire, se dice lo obvio. EL CAÑÓN PUEDE HACER MUCHO RUIDO. LA ACERA MÓVIL ESTÁ A PUNTO DE ACABARSE. Para la gente que no va por ahí demandándose unos a otros, estas señales sugieren una falta de inteligencia paralizante.

  David Sedaris

  Running, Stupid, Reading

  David Sedaris (2000). "Yo hablar bonito un día"

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• Si por mí fuera... no habría ni un solo león o tigre en cautividad en ningún lugar del mundo. Nunca les gusta. Nunca son felices. Nunca se establecen... Puedes verlo en sus ojos.

  Hugh Lofting

  Eye, Never Settle, Captivity

  Hugh Lofting (1922). "Los viajes del Doctor Dolittle", p.62, Frederick A. Stokes

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• For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is doing to the world, and the animals have retribution. But in the real world, this would not happen. But in the world of 1984, this kind of thing can happen in a story.

  James Patterson

  Real, Animal, Men

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• En lugar de responderle en cuanto vio que su pelo se volvía eléctrico, su rostro más vivo, sus ojos como relámpagos, su cuerpo inquieto y espasmódico como el de un caballo de carreras, se retiró tras ese muro de comprensión objetiva, esa suave comprobación y aceptación de ella, igual que uno observa a un animal en el zoo y sonríe ante sus payasadas, pero no se deja arrastrar por ese estado de ánimo. Fue esto lo que dejó a Lilith en un estado de aislamiento - de hecho, como un animal salvaje en un desierto absoluto.

  Anais Nin

  Wall, Eye, Acceptance

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• I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.'

  Betty White

  Book, Animal, Years

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• I love zoo sanctuaries.

  Nancy Travis

  Santuario

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.

  Bob Barker

  Average, Ideas, Circus

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• The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Dog, Taken, Cat

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• Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Music, Inmates, Band

  Hoagy Carmichael, Stephen Longstreet (1999). “The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael”

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• To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Animales, Personas, Exóticos

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.85, Macmillan

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• I don't have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I'm a zoo person. There's one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to your car. I love the monkeys - I used to give them bubblegum to chew.

  Missy Elliot

  Beach, Lying, Vacation

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• No pueden esperar que alguien pague por una camiseta que dice: 'Yo (foto de un elefante) el zoo de San Diego'. ¿Qué significa eso?

  Adam Rex

  Mean, Elephants, Doe

  Adam Rex (2010). “Fat Vampire: A Never-Coming-of-Age Story”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Baby, Art, Jobs

  Charles Bukowski (2014). “Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection”, Harper Collins

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  A good way to lose weight is to put salt on your ass and go to a petting zoo. But stay away from goats because I've seen them fornicate with a mail box.

  Gary Busey

  Weight, Goats, Mail

  "Gary Busey On Piranha 3DD" by Helen O'hara, www.empireonline.com. November 25, 2011.

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• The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it then when you start interfering."

  Jane Goodall

  Space, Voice, Giving

  Entrevista con Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1 de junio de 2010.

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• If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read - if you wait for the time, you will never do it. ‘Cause there ain’t no time; world don’t want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.

  Harry Crews

  Libro, Escribir, Debería

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• My father never cheated on my mother. He used to cheat on me. He used to pick other kids after school. Take them to the zoo. Take them to play ball. One day he came to me. He says, Look I got to level with you. I met another kid.

  Dom Irrera

  Madre, padre, escuela

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• Algo habremos perdido como pueblo si dejamos que se destruyan los espacios naturales que quedan; si permitimos que los últimos bosques vírgenes se conviertan en tebeos y pitilleras de plástico; si empujamos a los pocos miembros que quedan de las especies salvajes a los zoológicos o a la extinción; si contaminamos el último aire puro y ensuciamos los últimos arroyos limpios y empujamos nuestras carreteras asfaltadas a través del último de los silencios. . .

  Wallace Stegner

  Dirty, Book, Air

  Wallace Earle Stegner (2007). "The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner", Contrapunto

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