Top 26 Lion Tamer Quotes
#1. I never use a score when conducting my orchestra ... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?
Dimitris Mitropoulos
#2. What they don't tell you about the illusion
is that I am as much lion as I am lion tamer.
And I got good at inflicting pain the same way I got good
at soothing it.
This, we call unfortunate,
but inevitable.
Ashe Vernon
#3. I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat
George Bernard Shaw
#4. I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.
Kathryn Harrison
#5. It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
Dorothea Lange
#6. His lap looked like it was already occupied
by a giant boner. It pressed against his pants like a circus tent pole. Elephants could fit under there. A lion tamer and some flying trapeze artists. A dancing bear, or five.
Juniper Bell
#7. Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.
Laurence J. Peter
#8. I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.
Les Dawson
#9. For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
Billy Connolly
#10. I think I'd like to be a lion tamer, actually. That - that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly.
Andy Serkis
#11. I'll wait out here until the two of you are finished. Just call out if you need anything. Like a priest, cop, or lion tamer. (Aimee)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#12. Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!
Karen Salmansohn
#13. I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard Shaw
#14. Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.
Winston Graham
#15. He felt as if he'd woken up, weak and confused, only to be told that he'd spent the last three weeks in bed with a fever
and that during his illness, Queen Victoria had abdicated the throne and run off with a lion-tamer from Birmingham. The world seemed an entirely different place.
Courtney Milan
#16. A lady lion-tamer put her head in a lion's mouth last week, and he bit it off. If a lion attempted to put his head in my mouth I expect I would do the same.
Emma Donoghue
#17. Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#18. Matthew kept hinting that Strike was somehow a fake. He seemed to feel that being a private detective was a far-fetched job, like astronaut or lion tamer; that real people did not do such things.
Robert Galbraith
#19. When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit.
Christopher Walken
#20. A god who cares more about a little water on the head than my daughter's character is not a deity I want her to spend eternity with.
Sara Paretsky
#21. I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
David Byrne
#22. A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.
Jerzy Kosinski
#23. If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting.
Darrell Waltrip
#24. Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length: Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of the lion; Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise; Bravest he who rules his passions, Who his own impatience sways.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#25. Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.
Giacomo Leopardi
#26. Ryan took him out of Betty Ford after Redmond wanted to leave because he met a girl there. The girl was a heroin addict. She was the one who introduced him to the stuff.
Farrah Fawcett
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