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  • Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.

  • It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science.

    Ron Carlson, Ed Decker (2003). “Fast Facts® on False Teachings”, p.47, Harvest House Publishers
  • I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going to have pig's ear.

    Pigs   Apples   Jam  
  • You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.

  • Wearing green underwear today, I feel like a frog.

    Underwear   Green   Frogs  
    Twitter post from Sep 17, 2014
  • Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

  • Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

    Jobs   Winter   Journey  
  • In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me. I know this is God.

    Eye   Snow   Green  
    "Soul Mountain". Book by Gao Xingjian, 1990.
  • I guess I was a bit of a tomboy. I liked to catch frogs in the ditch, play soccer with my brother’s friends and play video games.

    Soccer   Brother   Games  
  • Well,” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?” “Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they won’t listen, and neither will Therandil.” “I didn’t ask what you’d said about it,” the frog snapped. “I asked what you’re going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

    Talking   Parent   Frogs  
    Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.'

  • Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night

    Night   Rose   Bird  
  • He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

    Wine   Feelings   Frogs  
    Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.264, University of Illinois Press
  • That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of hot water, it jumps out. If you drop it in a pan of cold water, then turn the heat up slowly, you can roast it to death.

  • A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.

    Ocean   Frogs   Wells  
  • Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either

    Egypt   Names   Creating  
    Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press
  • The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs—it's been documented—discover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is." So?" So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

    Art   Powerful   Voice  
    Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.168, Anchor
  • We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

  • I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

    Gay   Kissing   Thinking  
  • I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

    Snakes   Earth   Bunnies  
    "Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0" by Michelle Kung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.
  • Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.586, Wordsworth Editions
  • Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

    Eggs   Ideas   Frogs  
  • A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.

    Gold   Puddles   Thrones  
  • You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it's rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I'm ten minutes from the centre of the city.

    "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.
  • Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.

  • If frogs could fly... well we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?

    Miracle   Frogs   Neat  
    "The Drew Carey Show". www.imdb.com. 1995 - 2004.
  • But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

    Funny   Long   Chocolate  
  • Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he’d turn into a frog, but not the other way around.

    Kissing   Promise   Might  
  • A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

  • There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.

    Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.23, Discovery House
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