#snake

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#fear #i #kangaroo #koala #life

No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#anywhere #country #go #i #no problem

Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#before #biggest #could #i #instinctive

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake. ↗

— Ayatollah Khomeini

#satan #snake #wounded

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. ↗

— Florence King

#bite #conventions #etiquette #matters #merely

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#area #country #dangerous #insects #live

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#arises #aspect #ignorance #individualized #limited

A brick has no legs, so it probably slithers like a snake. Therefore, a brick might make a good pet. And at least you wouldn’t have to walk it.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #dog

I bite off the fingers and spit them out. Lord Loss screams obligingly. One of the snakes digs its fangs into my bald skull and rips out a chunk of flesh. I snatch the snake from its heartless home and chew its head off. I'm starting to enjoy this biting business. ↗

— Darren Shan

#lord-loss #snakes #business

The wise speak only of what they know, Gríma son of Gálmód. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy words with a serving-man till the lightning falls.' There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight became blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf could be seen, standing white and tall before the blackened hearth. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#galmod #gandalf #grima #snake #death