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Animal Quotes

If beauty isn’t genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

– Peter York

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

– Samuel Butler

We are the storytelling animal.

– Salman Rushdie

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

– Robert Lanza

Anything that is impractical can be play. It’s doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.

– Shigeru Miyamoto

No other animal bonds to a human being the way a dog does. And I suspect there is no other animal to which human beings can bond the way we can bond to a dog.

– Robert Crais

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

– Samuel Butler

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

– Philip James Bailey

The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the animal styles at the time. It was around about the time when Jackie was doing ‘Drunken Master,’ and, like, Snake versus this and that.

– Ray Park

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.

– Paul Johnson

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.

– Richard Dawkins

All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

– Rita Mae Brown

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

– Robert Winston

Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.

– Robert Barany

I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal.

– Rita Rudner

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

– Oscar Wilde

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

– Samuel Johnson

We’re interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see the practical consequences by watching ‘Animal Planet.’ You notice they make very few programs about gerbils. It’s mostly about things that have big teeth.

– Seth Shostak

The way you really find out about the performer’s seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don’t have a lot of respect for.

– Robert Redford

I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.

– Richard Jewell

I’d like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.

– Rachel Hunter

If any player has a bad game it’s there in the back of your mind in the next game. There’s always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.

– Rio Ferdinand

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

– Roberto Cavalli

Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he’s an animal. He’s got us out there campaigning and everything because honestly it’s a silent black-and-white film.

– Penelope Ann Miller

I did ‘Animal House’ in 1978, then ‘Local Hero’ in 1983, and then in ’88, ‘Crossing Delancey.’ And I realized that every three to five years, you need a big role to put you into the national psyche.

– Peter Riegert

We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn’t describe myself as an animal person.

– Pamela Stephenson

In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

– Oliver Tambo

If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.

– Rachael Ray

I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either!

– Randeep Hooda

What happens if you are the last (the very, very last) of your species, and you die – and humans notice? We live, increasingly, at a time when extinctions are recorded, remembered, and the last animal (or plant) in its line, by virtue of its being last, becomes a kind of celebrity. Its finality becomes a thing to honor.

– Robert Krulwich

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