Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Douglas

When it's one animal, you really do have a tougher time because you've gotta commit to story structures that maybe are difficult to find the range in the animal to tell those stories. There are only so many things they do, if they're living in the natural world, that we can appreciate. There are plenty of things that they do that we don't appreciate.

David Duchovny

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.

Beau Garrett

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

Beatrice Webb

At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.

Bear Grylls

I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.

Arthur Rimbaud

The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none. A language must be found…of the soul, for the soul and will include everything: perfumes, sounds colors, thought grappling with thought

Arnold J. Toynbee

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Antonio Tabucchi

History is a big word..........History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

Zhou Min

We also want more people to learn about the happiness of taking care of a little animal in need.

Baroness Orczy

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him

Billie Joe Armstrong

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

Ed Belfour

Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

Bill Watterson

I'm a misunderstood genius.

Brigitte Bardot

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

Dusty Springfield

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

Dominic Monaghan

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

Alan Greenspan

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Alan Greenspan

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

David Vitter

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

David Rockefeller

Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government...

David Hume

When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?

David Hume

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter.

David Dreman

History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.

David Draiman

Spread the sickness, infect the world.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I was brought up in a world of privilege.