Sometimes it is good to fall down so that we can see whether we honourably get up or disgracefully turn into a miserable reptile!
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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. "
When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?
If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?
You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!
When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.
The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.
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.
America eats its youth like reptiles. . . Educat e yourself before they dumb you down.
My girlfriend thinks I look like a reptile - it's not the best.
I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.
I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.
Hiccup: Thank You For Nothing You Stupid Reptile.
She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.
I always had an affinity for lizards. I've always felt somewhat close to them. They're reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times.
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.
A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print -Reptiles- you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation. ' I replied, 'Madam, if that's the way you see it, so be it. '
Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.
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?