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  • I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.

  • The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

  • Crikey means gee whiz, wow!

    Mean   Wow   Crocs  
    "Enough Rope With Andrew Denton" on ABC, 2004.
  • I've gotten rid of the yips four times but they hang in there. You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.

    Golf   Two   Feet  
  • The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.

    Beauty   Heart   Males  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2691, Delphi Classics
  • I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

    Herman Melville (2015). “The Confidence-Man: Works of Melville”, p.176, 谷月社
  • If your gonna play with rattlesnakes, you better know what rattlesnakes do.

  • The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.

    Ross Macdonald (2010). “The Way Some People Die”, p.233, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

    The Life I Really Lived ch. 2 (1979)
  • Every time I come across a rattlesnake on my farm I initially react in fear and am tempted to kill it. Then I realize I wouldn't want to live in a world where all wild things - without and within - are domesticated.

    World   Want   Realizing  
    Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com
  • I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

  • I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.

    Thinking   Nerd   Brain  
    Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. December 29, 2010.
  • The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of rock and heat, sand dunes and quicksand, cactus, thornbrush, scorpion, rattlesnake, and agaraphobic distances. To those who see our land in that manner, the best reply is, yes, you are right, it is a dangerous and terrible place. Enter at your own risk. Carry water. Avoid the noonday sun. Try to ignore the vultures. Pray frequently.

    Country   Distance   Land  
  • It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

    Wise   Men   Profit  
  • If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

    Good Night   Sleep   Way  
    William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.83, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.

    Dog   Rain   Eye  
    "Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside". Book by Edward Abbey ("Preface" (dated October 1983), pp. 16-17), 1984.
  • A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

    Peace   Hate   Thinking  
  • A thing is good because it is good, not because it is natural. A thing is bad because it is bad, not because its artificial. It is not a damn iota better to be bitten by a rattlesnake than shot by a gun.

    Gun   Natural   Shots  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.239, Bantam
  • 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.

    Father   Adventure   Tree  
  • I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put out thousands of waxy blooms. So what did they need poison for? Couldn't they just be bitter? They weren't like rattlesnakes, they didn't even eat what they killed. The way she boiled it down, distilled it, like her hatred. Maybe it was a poison in the soil, something about L.A., the hatred, the callousness, something we didn't want to think about, that the plant concentrated in its tissues. Maybe it wasn't a source of poison, but just another victim.

  • One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

    Puff   Sin   Reason  
  • Slapping a rattlesnake across the face with the back of your hand is safer than trying to fool Henry Aaron.

    Hands   Trying   Faces  
  • I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesnakes would stop curling up by our back door.

    Doors   Wish   Wildlife  
    Source: www.sfgate.com
  • To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

    Food   Cowboy   People  
    Alistair Cooke (1979). “The Americans: Fifty Letters from America on Our Life and Times”, Hodder & Stoughton
  • I’m not as good as a man as you are, Sundown. I find it hard to give an enemy my back under any circumstance.” – Ren “Oh, I didn’t say I was giving her my back. I’m not lacking all my noodle sense. But I’m not holding a grudge neither. Sometimes you just got to let the rattlesnake lay in the sun.” – Sundown “Men? You do know I’m standing in this little box with you and can hear every word?” – Abigail “We know. I merely don’t care.” – Ren

    Men   Giving   Enemy  
  • It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?

    Hands   Long   Doe  
  • We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.

    Angel   People   World  
  • I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.

    Long   Pet   Faces  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • He was clearly related to Declan: same nose, same dark eyebrows, same phenomenal teeth. But there was a carefully cultivated sense of danger to this Lynch brother. This was not a rattlesnake hidden in the grass, but a deadly coral snake striped with warning colors. Everything about him was a warning: If this snake bit you, you had no one to blame but yourself.

    Brother   Dark   Color  
    Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.160, Scholastic Inc.
  • Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the danger of rattlesnakes. He said, 'I'll take along a bottle of whiskey.' … I ended by asking, 'What would you do about those possibilities [of what unknown phenomena might cause a nuclear explosion to propagate in the atmosphere]?' Bob replied, 'Take a second bottle of whiskey.'

    "Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics". Book by Edward Teller and Judith L. Shoolery, 2001.
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