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Animal Quotes

Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

– Rachel Hunter

My favorite animal is a polar bear. They’re going extinct, and I really don’t want that to happen.

– Quvenzhane Wallis

When I was presenting ‘Animal Hospital,’ the grey started to creep into my beard and moustache. I used my wife’s mascara to darken it.

– Rolf Harris

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting – the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness – or into waves of probability.

– Robert Lanza

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical – it is in any animal merely statistical – not deterministic.

– Richard Dawkins

I enjoy not knowing everything about a musician I like. At a time when you can find out a popstar’s favourite animal, I think it’s more exciting not to know. I just don’t want to tell everyone everything.

– Oliver Sim

One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

– Robert T. Bakker

Don’t crop ears or tails or declaw cats; it’s really painful. People think it’s necessary, but it’s painful for the animal, and it’s completely unnecessary.

– Rory Freedman

What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!

– Will Self

‘Why’ is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug?

– Tom Wolfe

People may have found it difficult to approach me, and I realised it and have worked on it. I used to be socially shy. Now I have become a social animal. I go out, meet and interact with people.

– Shahid Kapoor

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.

– Thomas Willis

I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don’t know why. Yuvraj Singh isn’t a party animal; he is just singled out. I don’t know why.

– Yuvraj Singh

I think it’s all the same animal for me. There are actors who sing, and there are actors who direct, and I also improvise. That’s one thing I do as part of my acting. I don’t really separate the two.

– Scott Adsit

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

– William John Wills

I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.

– Sophia Loren

I’m very much into animal welfare.

– Teresa Palmer

I have mild albinism, which means I am very sensitive to light, so the animal representation of my spirit would have to be a mole. I am particularly fond of that most Lovecraftian of mammals, the star-nosed mole, and tend to choose it for online icons and avatars.

– Sarah Monette

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

– Thomas Szasz

I have three dogs, a cat, fish. I’m a huge animal lover. They’re amazing.

– Willow Shields

You don’t know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.

– Tippi Hedren

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

– Tom Stoppard

Now I’m no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world.

– Tom Hodgkinson

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

– William Hazlitt

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

– William Bartram

When I auditioned for ‘Animal House,’ I had only done some plays at a local dinner theater in Virginia.

– Stephen Furst

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They’re on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

– Steve Irwin

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that’s really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that’s interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.

– Temple Grandin

With Animal Factory you’d think that because it’s mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.

– Steve Buscemi

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