Like Vultures Quotes

#1. My knees shook as they descended upon me like vultures, squeezing the life out of my fragile bones. Never had I witnessed such a loud group of guys who got wound up so high over nothing. All they did was hoot over Ellis's new apartment and belch the school's theme song. Joy.

Wade Kelly

#2. Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

Paul Stanley

#3. You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

Isaac Asimov

#4. Tired of trying to sort them out, you relax for a second, then your head drops and you sit up with a jerk, Where are you? What are you doing here? Oh yes, of course, you are somewhere in the middle of the North Atlantic, with hungry waves below you like vultures impatiently waiting for the end.

Amy Johnson

#5. We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.

Nicholas Kristof

#6. Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

Libba Bray

#7. Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.

Joyce Carol Oates

#8. Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another 20 years, but I don't know ... I just can't see it happening. I don't know why. It's a certain foreboding ... a funny feeling ... vultures.

Jimmy Page

#9. G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.

A. J. Jacobs

#10. Diclofenac, cow aspirin, given to cattle as a muscle relaxant, to ease pain and increase the production of milk, works - worked - like nerve gas on white-backed vultures. Each chemically relaxed, milk-producing cow or buffalo that died became poisoned vulture bait.

Arundhati Roy

#11. It was July. Crazy hot and dry. It hadn't rained in, like, sixty days. Drought hot. Scorpion hot. Vultures flying circles in the sky hot.

Sherman Alexie

#12. Proust's is a long book, though, water- skiing permitting, you could get through it in the summer recess

Alan Bennett

#13. First I brush my teeth and then I sharpen my tongue.

Oscar Levant

#14. It looks like Vegas threw up on a flock of vultures.

Jamie McGuire

#15. Debt vultures are really the scum at the bottom of the pond. These are guys who buy up the debts of the world's poorest countries on the secondary market. You can go buy debts of a country like Peru, for example, at a real discount. Why? Because people think that the debts won't be repaid.

Noreena Hertz

#16. The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#17. On Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

Marya Mannes

#18. The universe computes its own destiny.

James Gleick

#19. I love people who are openly gay in theatre, because they have license to do what they like, and there's a kind of artistic liberal tolerance thing that goes on.

Steve Coogan

#20. If you are still tied to your past, the devil will keep using it as a weapon against you

Sunday Adelaja

#21. A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from the likes of Facebook and Twitter.

Ryan Holmes

#22. A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. When a man's breast feels like a cage from which all the dark birds have flown - he is free, he is light. And he longs to have his vultures back again. He wants his customary struggles, his nameless, empty works, his anger, his afflictions and his sins.

Saul Bellow

#24. Really? Okay, let's roll." I didn't want to learn to drive in his beast of a vehicle, but I wasn't going to take his not so subtle ridicule either.

Elle Klass

#25. We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

Horace

#26. Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings

Isaac Watts

#27. My dad brought me up to be a good person.

Courtney Eaton