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  • Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

    Food   Science   Men  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics
  • … what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like “Structured Analysis and Design”, “Software Engineering”, “Maturity Models”, “Management Information Systems”, “Integrated Project Support Environments” “Object Orientation” and “Business Process Re-engineering”.

  • A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch of the angry professor had been made in anger. Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom--all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.

    Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions
  • A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

    Essence   Snakes   Trying  
    Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.412, Open Road Media
  • A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.

    Real   Army   Fire  
  • We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

    Snakes   Circles   Skulls  
  • Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they're as cunning as snakes. They can't lie, but they love to engage in creative truth-telling. They'll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you—with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place." He sighed. "They're not really about helping people. More about harm disguised as help.

    Regret   Lying   Years  
    Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.599, Simon and Schuster
  • I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

    Voltaire (1956). “Candide: or, Optimism”
  • The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

    Snakes   Skins   Casts  
  • The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

    Garden   Snakes   Evil  
    Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.246, Everyman's Library
  • My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.

    Mother   Teacher   School  
    "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.
  • My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

    Snakes   Daddy   Firsts  
    "Power Grid Politics". Fox News, www.cbsnews.com. August 17, 2003.
  • We instinctively fear snakes, but we appear not to be afraid of fast cars, which are a real danger now. This suggests our emotions were shaped by our evolutionary environment not the one we grew up in.

    Real   Snakes   Car  
  • Tim Tebow's like the snake doctor for Florida. Gotta stop the snake doctor, keep the Gators from moving the ball....this time he snaked Alabama with a play action pass.

  • I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.

    Sarcastic   Snakes   Want  
  • When most people get drunk, they see snakes. But, when snakes get drunk, they see Jake Roberts!

    Snakes   People   Drunk  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I went out in my yard and saw a snake, so I got really scared, and I came back inside to get a shovel, and beat the hell out of that snake. Then I didn't have cable for a week.

    Snakes   Yards   Saws  
  • Beggin' your pardon, miss, but I was told you be the one to help me cross on to the next world." "Who told you this?" His eyes widen. "A fearsome creature with a head full of snakes!" "You musn't fear her," I say, taking the man's hand and leading his toward the river. "She's as tame as a pussycat. She'd probably lick your hand given the chance." "Didn't seem harmless," he whispers, shuddering. "Yes, well, things are not always as they appear, sir, and we must learn to judge for ourselves.

    Eye   Men   Hands  
  • The Bible says gays arent natural. What, and a talking snake is?!

    Gay   Talking   Snakes  
  • Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

    Home   Wind   Snakes  
    William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”
  • The world used to think we are a land of snake charmers and black magic. But our youth has surprised the world with its IT [information technology] skills. I dream of a digital India.

    "India: Five unusual messages from Narendra Modi's speech" by Geeta Pandey, www.bbc.com. August 15, 2014.
  • 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.
  • She's gone. Been gone for ages. They split up right after you left. That's why the grass out front started growing again." "He's got a new girlfriend?" she said quietly. "Thank god. You must be happy." "Yeah. He does. It's a relief. She's a lot nicer. But then, your average angry snake is nicer than Fiona. I'm sure she's happier wherever she is now, burning orphans or whatever she does with her time.

    Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Last Little Blue Envelope”, p.14, Harper Collins
  • Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we’d lost, they would have gouged out our eyes and thrown us naked onto hot coals and poisonous snakes for all the cheering and hugging at the end, strangers hugging like the end of The Omega Virus when Steve Sturmine finds the antidote.

    Cheer   Eye   Snakes  
    Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.68, Egmont UK
  • The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

    Snakes   World   Forests  
  • Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."

  • Have you ever studied a snake's face? - how optimistic they look. They have an eternal smile.

  • When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

    Wisdom   Islamic   Heart  
  • You're right. And so was my snake." Snake?" He pulled my arm out to expose my bracelet. "When I carved this my thoughts were on you, love. Your life is like this snake's coils. No matter how many turns it makes, you'll end up back where you belong. With me.

    Maria V. Snyder (2008). “Magic Study”, p.439, MIRA
  • That earns him a smack with my book bag. "Ow." He clutches his arm. "What do you have in there? Books?" A grin snakes across his face. "I like my women feisty." He adds, "I like my broken.

    Book   Snakes   Broken  
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