#animal

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#agile #animal #boot #europe #general

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

— Thomas Szasz

#define #defined #eat #eaten #human

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#between #commit #difference #humans #murder

Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants. ↗

— Thomas French

#elephants #stealth #life

Sometimes you want to stay with someone, not only because it's magic and it's promising and it feels like home; but sometimes you find someone and you want to stay with him (or her)—because you're the same kind of animal. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#attraction #desire #love #man-and-woman #rawness

But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth. ↗

— Katie Couric

#around #brushing #course #different #different animal

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#beat #death #end #leave #more

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#call #does #instinct #intelligence #reason

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#about #anything #around #go #going

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#eagle #i #were #would