Best animal & strange Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.”

“Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.”

Animal Brain Strange Narcissistic Egotistical

Author:Zoe Saldana

“Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.”

Social Animal Talking Strange Fool Tricks Pretending

Book:The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

Source: The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

“exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.”

Animal Effort Saws Strange Rain Roots Chaos Seeds Odd Sunset Exaggerated Collision

Book:Different Hours: Poems

Source: Different Hours: Poems

“Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence?”

“The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given any thought to the manner in which we should express them. And suddenly there is within us a strange and obscene animal making itself heard, whose tones may inspire as much alarm in the person who receives the involuntary, elliptical and almost irresistible communication of one's defect or vice as would the sudden avowal indirectly and outlandishly proffered by a criminal who can no longer refrain from confessing to a murder of which one had never imagined him to be guilty.”

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

“The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Mean Littles Important Home Women Animal Strange Birth Creatures Female Profound Males Notion Spread Caves Innovative Giving Birth Hunted

Book:Lee Krasner: paintings from 1965 to 1970

Source: Lee Krasner: paintings from 1965 to 1970

“In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was shown, but on the other side of bars; if present, it was at a distance, under the eyes of a reason that no longer felt any relation to it and that would not compromise itself by too close a resemblance. Madness had become a thing to look at: no longer a monster inside oneself, but an animal with strange mechanisms, a bestiality from which man had long since been suppressed.”

Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.”

Believe Political Individual I Believe Animal Strange Periods Controversy Obsessing

Book:The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature

Source: The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature

“Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.”

“My worst job was packing animal feed in a warehouse in Gloucestershire when I was a student. It was a very strange environment. It was hung heavy with oat dust, the place was infested with mice, and everyone who worked there was over 60, and I was 18. It was crazy. Apologies to anyone who works in animal-feed packing industry and loves it.”

Jobs Animal Environment Crazy Worst Students Strange Industry And Love Heavy Dust Apology Hung Mice Packing Warehouse

Author:Simon Pegg

“If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.”

Ifs Mind Feelings Stuff Animal Trouble Strange Jail

Author:Mike Tyson

“We have seen that blood united to blood in the case of but remotely connected species of animals, kills; blood united to blood in the case of more closely allied species of animals does not kill. The physical organism of man survives when strange blood comes in contact with strange blood, ... but clairvoyant power perishes under the influence of this mixing of blood, or exogamy.”

Men Doe Animal United Cases Blood Influence Strange Species Scary Connected Contact Organisms Mixing Clairvoyant

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.”

World Animal Wonder Creation Strange Evolution Plant Mood Animal World

Author:John Colton

“I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.”

Source: African Silences

“Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.”

Men Animal Education Knowledge Learning Mankind Strange Wall Educational Handwriting Handwriting On The Wall

Author:Adlai Stevenson I

“People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.”

“The human animal is a fascinating beast. Watching people and trying to learn how and why they do things, and to engage in the somewhat futile attempt to explain them...it's my reason for living I guess...to ask 'why?'. I don't know what else to do with myself. In some strange way it's probably an attempt to understand myself and my own relationship to the world.”

People Knows World Way Trying Humans Reason Asks My Own Animal Strange Beast Fascinating Human Animal

Author:Andrew Neel

“Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.”

Humans Purpose Animal Race Hell Strange Dignity Human Race Hops Torpedoes

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“I'm so grateful that I'm able to do something about this passion that I have for shelter animals. In a strange way, it completes me. It means so much to me and makes me feel like I'm truly making a difference.”

Way Feels Mean Able Passion Differences Animal Strange Grateful Making A Difference Shelter So Grateful Animal Shelter

Author:Emmylou Harris

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