Hungry Lions Quotes

#1. [the Devil] ... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it ...

Jonathan Edwards

#2. Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in circuses. In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy.

Peter Singer

#3. Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.

Tom Shales

#4. If you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.

Yann Martel

#5. In fact, I was just looking for news about you. Where have you been hiding?" "In your exercise room. I've been watching your bard-in-a-box and learning about your world.

Bryan Fields

#6. It wasn't because the lions were particularly hungry. The humans had been nothing compared to the eighteen-hundred-pound Cape buffalo, the pride's more typical prey. The cars had been like boxes full of snacks.

James Patterson

#7. We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

Mel Brooks

#8. My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

Gary Locke

#9. Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

Charles Dickens

#10. Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.

Patrick Demarchelier

#11. Time is not a road - it is a room.

John Fowles

#12. Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints?

Rumi

#13. Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance.

T. B. Joshua

#14. When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

Charlie Chaplin

#15. ...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

Julia Child

#16. If anyone was to perform the classic folly of taking a midnight stroll among the murderous gentlemen with whom the hotel was probably packed, it was not going to be me.

Mary Stewart