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“I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.”

I Can Work Animal Shapes Paper Clip Small Animals Paper Clips

Author:Al Yankovic

“Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.”

Ifs World Needs Heart Animal Silence Chaos Legs Noise Flight Knees Refuge Diminish Creeps Small Animals

Author:Barbara Hurd

“Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.”

Body Earth Time Animal Listening Noise Clock Small Animals

Author:Anne Sexton

“If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Animal Dog Shapes Cat Bunch Elephants Sinking Squirrels Ark Overboard Cat Dog Small Animals

Author:Vilfredo Pareto

“Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.”

Writing I Can Animal Wall Corners Holes Furniture Cozy Small Animals Burrowing

Author:Danielle Steel

“I think small animals can escape from many kinds of natural disaster more easily. There are just more places for them to hide, and more ways for them to find safe habitats. So this means that rats are set up to rule the Earth, but most of us already knew that. Now you know why.”

Thinking Knows Way Kind Mean Earth Natural Animal Safe Disaster Rats Habitat Natural Disaster Small Animals

Author:Annalee Newitz

“I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?”

Feels Kind Mean Night Sleep Animal Rooms Dog Ought Offers Bed Travel Cat Hotel Hotel Rooms Lifeless Optional Small Animals

Book:Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels

Source: Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels

“Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? That’s the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, “At Your Service,” like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.”

Way Said Book Animal Taken Fire Written Paper Messages Garden Rage Dishes Uncles Aunt Lawns Supper Small Animals

Book:Blackwater

Source: Blackwater

“It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us.”

Writing Said Hard Animal Adventure Brave Be Brave Rabbits Piglet Sniffing Small Animals

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.”

Hard Animal Courage Bravery Brave Be Brave Winni The Pooh Piglet Tao Of Pooh Pooh Bear Friend Pooh And Piglet Pooh Piglet Small Animals

Author:A. A. Milne

“She didn't even notice right away that a small animal had come out from behind a nearby car and was slowly making its way toward the trash can she was standing near. She flipped through some old files in her mind, trying to come up with what this thing might be, and after a few seconds decided that--impossible as it seemed--it was a fox.”

Way Trying Mind Might Animal Behinds Impossible Car Standing Decided Come Up Seconds Foxes Trash Files Flipped Trash Cans Small Animals

Author:Maureen Johnson

“Yes, he’s a good boy. Never been in trouble at school and he’s on the honor roll. Captain of the football team. All-around psycho serial killer who hides bodies in the fridge whenever his parents go out of town. (Nick) I also eat babies for breakfast and torture small animals for fun. My therapist says I’m making real progress though. (Caleb)”

“Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.”

“Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.”

Wells Whole Beautiful Animal Views Beauty Depends Unity Size Impression Confusion Confused Portions Confusing Symmetry Completeness Small Animals

Author:Aristotle

“Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: "You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer." Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, "It's 5:00 in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time."”

Men Shows Humor Bigs Light Funny Animal Morning Five Beer Clock Why Not Realistic Manly Dumpsters Small Animals Light Beer

Author:Robin Williams

“My name is Patrick Fitzgerald ... I like to tear the tops off small animals.”

Names Animal Tears Small Animals

Author:Karl Rove

“Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the presence of towering mountains or sweeping plains without getting a little of the high moral standard of Nature infused into his being ... with eyes opened, the great story of the Earth's forming, the history of a tree, the life of a flower or the activities of some small animal will all unfold themselves to the recreationist.”

“A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.”

Way Doe Animal Cows Mice Tigers Small Animals

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.”

“Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.”

Knows Needs Real Moving Names Language Animal Tree Bird Rain Seasons Paid Hungry Discomfort Small Animals

Book:Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition

Source: Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition

“They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore.”

Humans Seems Used Animal Sky Achieve Possibility Strange Bird Complexes Planes Engineering Soar Enticing Small Animals

Author:Tahereh Mafi