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  • Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

    Ambition   Rocks   Eagles  
  • Who are you?" Violet asked. It is confusing to fall asleep in the daytime and wake up at night. "what are you doing with Uncle Monty's reptiles?" Klaus asked. It is also confusing to realize you have been sleeping on stairs, rather than in a bed or sleeping bag. "Dixnik?" Sunny asked. It is always confusing why anyone would choose to wear a plaid shirt.

    Uncles   Fall   Sleep  
  • The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.

    Hair   Mind   Green  
    A S Byatt (2011). “A Stone Woman (Storycuts)”, p.11, Random House
  • With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

    Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.53, Univ of California Press
  • This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in fish, amphibians and reptiles from the southwestern part of the country. The River Journey exhibit transports visitors from the Appalachian highlands through ponds, rivers and swamps, all the way to the seacoast. The recently added Ocean Journey exhibit allows visitors to sample a variety of saltwater environments.

    Country   Ocean   Unique  
  • Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

    Fire   Water   Buckets  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.196, 谷月社
  • And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I am allowed no explanation? I am to suffer hell without any account from heaven? In that case, what is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities-the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch? (pg. 98)

    Giving   Shining   Bird  
    Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.108, Vintage Canada
  • Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.

    "Traits of Indian character". Book by Washington Irving, 1819.
  • I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

    Animal   Whales   Bird  
    "Nicolas Cage Only Eats Animals With 'Dignified' Manner in Sex" by celebrity-mania.com, May 19, 2010.
  • Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas

  • The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ "Into the Inferno"]: our planet is "indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike."

    Source: www.rogerebert.com
  • [St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty.

    Teaching   Men   Snakes  
  • I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

    Reptiles   Looks   Humans  
  • Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

    "Hollywood’s Celebrity Bush Bashers" by Michelle Malkin, capitalismmagazine.com. March 24, 2001.
  • I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a bird of the ages Triassic, With his antediluvian beak, And many a reptile Jurassic, And many a monster antique.

    Museums   Profound   Bird  
    May Kendall (1887). “Dreams to Sell”
  • An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.

    William Cowper (1826). “Poems. With an introductory essay by J. Montgomery”, p.340
  • To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest.

  • Invade me now, my ruthless friend, And make me cower in the dark. Remind me that I'm all alone And draw upon my face your mark. How is it that you capture me, When all my thoughts deny your force? Is it the reptile in my brain That lets your terror run its course? Baseless Fear undoes us all Despite our quest for lofty goals. We would-be Galahads don't die, Fear just freezes all our souls. It keeps us mute when feeling love, Reminding us what we might lose. And if by chance we meet success, Fear tells us which safe route to choose.

    Running   Fear   Dark  
    Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama Revealed”, p.40, RosettaBooks
  • I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

    Mother   Feet   Envy  
    John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”
  • What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?

    Spiritual   Men   Ideas  
    "Of Freethinkers". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.
  • Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.

    Sea   Rivers   Bird  
  • In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.

    Self   Savages   Reptiles  
  • What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.

    Caring   Thinking   Wind  
    "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". TV Series (Episode 11: The Persistence of Memory), 1990.
  • The reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life. Looking up at the ancient impassive faces, Kerans could understand the curious fear they roused, rekindling archaic memories of the terrifying jungles of the Paleocene, when the reptiles had gone down before the emergent mammals, and sense the implacable hatred one zoological class feels towards another that usurps it.

    Memories   Taken   Animal  
    J. G. Ballard (1965). “The Drowned World and the Wind From Nowhere”
  • FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

    Food   Science   Cooking  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.72, 谷月社
  • At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.

    Pbs   Vapid   Roaches  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.

    "What the devil's he on about? David Icke says Opening Ceremony was a secret Satanic ritual" by Simon Head, www.mirror.co.uk. August 1, 2012.
  • Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.

    Song: The Jean Genie, Album: Aladdin Sane, 1973
  • The Loch Ness monster doesn't exist either. Loch Ness is just not big enough to hide a thirty foot amphibian or reptile for hundreds of years.

    Years   Feet   Monsters  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

    Wall   Night   Men  
    Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.78
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