#alligator

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. ↗

— Olin Miller

#earning #exception #hardest #living #possible

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#alligators #areas #being #down #father

Where was I when the rockets came to life, and carried you away into the alligator sky.? ↗

— Owl City

#owl-city #life

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#alligators #besides #certainly #common #during

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#alligators #connection #deal #distant #fantasy

The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them. ↗

— Jack Hannah

#alone #away #best #just #leave

I wish I could say I gulp pure courage as I run, like those brave little girls you read about in stories, ... But this burst of speed comes from an older adrenaline, some limbic other. Not courage, but a deeper terror. I don't want to be left alone. And I am ready to defend Ossie against whatever monster I encounter, ... and save her for myself. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #courage

I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid. ↗

— Owl City

#owl-city #death

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #home

We keep giggling, happy and nervous, tickled by an incomplete innocence. We both sense that some dark joke is being played on us, even if we can't quite grasp the punch line. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #home