“I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.” PeopleWayTryingLittlesProblemAsksWishEnjoyPleasureAnimalCompanyKindnessLike YouReturnFitComfortAbout FriendshipConditional Author:Bill Watterson
“You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindChildrenTwoHardWholeWould BeTurnsAnimalChildhoodLike YouCreaturesAdultsAll KindsMessSubstanceHopelessSplitsSurvivedCandyTurmoilHandyLavaUncomplicatedSeethingHard Candy Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'” KindTwoKidsYoungAnimalLike YouMiceMickeyVcr Author:Kathryn Hahn
“As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic and glamorous and that you wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.” PeopleWayKindMatterHardFactsProblemBeautifulDifficultAnimalPartyMorningHard WorkLike YouBedMoonMusicianTreatsWake UpDinnerLovelyFantasticSubstanceStaringKicksNonsenseGlamorousNeedlesExoticDinner PartyGuttersGroupieBeautiful PoetryExotic Animals Author:Brian Molko
“I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which everybody says you shouldn't do. It makes you feel like you're not acting, as soon as you have someone who's providing stuff to react to.” FeelsKidsStuffAnimalActingLike YouProvidingWorking With Animals Author:Robert Pattinson
“[Apostol Paul's] views were translated as, "Your rule is to be kind to black people; you don't beat them." It's very much the way we treated women in the 14th and 15th centuries. A woman was not human, and you should be kind to your wife like you are to all dumb animals. That was the mentality.” PeopleWayShouldHumansKindBlackAnimalViewsWifeCenturyLike YouBeatsTreatedDumbBe KindBlack PeopleMentality Author:John Shelby Spong
“Before I was a vegetarian, I traveled to South Africa and hung out there for a little bit. And they had different animals - did you know different parts of the world have different animals? Because I didn't until I got there! This is what being an American is like. You're like, "Every place has these animals."” KnowsWorldLittlesDifferentBitsAnimalLike YouLittle BitSouthVegetarianSouth AfricaHungTraveledDid You KnowDifferent Animals Author:Cameron Esposito
“I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which is what everybody says you shouldn't do, because it makes you feel like you're not acting.” FeelsKidsAnimalActingLike YouWorking With Animals Author:Robert Pattinson