Quotes on the topic: Animal


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I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.


I'm an animal lover.


Fame is a very strange animal.


As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.


Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.


'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.


I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.


Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.


Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.


Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.


Man, an animal that makes bargains.


Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.


Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.


Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.


Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.


I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.


I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits.


Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.


Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.


Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.