Quotes About Hippos

#1. Described as a "workaholic speed-writing freak" by fellow writers, a "creative writing class drill sergeant" by his writing 'padawans', Voinov is a self-confessed geek and has enlarged his days by 12 secret hours in return for the sacrifice of ten albino virgin pygmy hippos.

Aleksandr Voinov

#2. Never camp by the edge of a waterhole"; "don't screw with hippos"; "baboons are like German shepherds on crack";

Marilyn Johnson

#3. It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Dan Quayle

#4. Love yourself and that is all the love you need.

Amit Abraham

#5. That Christ's Baptism was not a mere form, but the fulfilling of all righteousness, proves that He descended into the water burdened with our sins.

Abraham Kuyper

#6. I love you,' cooed Fake Amy. 'You dance so much better than the Doctor.'
'Silly.' Real Amy nudged her in the ribs. 'Hippos dance better than the Doctor.

James Goss

#7. And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

Jack Kerouac

#8. Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#9. Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

George Ayittey

#10. I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.

Alicia Machado

#11. Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

Elizabeth Wein

#12. Start training yourself. You don't have to have been an elite lifter to be a good coach - I sure as hell wasn't. But you have to at least have been under the bar enough to know why wedon't look up at the bleeding ceiling when we squat!

Mark Rippetoe

#13. African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.

Jared Diamond

#14. Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.'

Thom Yorke

#15. Pointing your fingers at someone else takes away power from you,

Roselyn Brown

#16. There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.

Freida Pinto

#17. Pain is annoying and unnecessary, like getting an e-mail in all caps. It's like a six-year-old who alerts you every fifteen seconds that he wants Hungry Hungry Hippos for his birthday. Yes, I understand. Message received.

A. J. Jacobs

#18. Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#19. When you go to see the lake, you also see the hippos.

William Kamkwamba

#20. I believe that most websites suck because HiPPOs create them. HiPPO is an acronym for the "Highest Paid Person's Opinion.

Avinash Kaushik

#21. We Christians are secure, realizing that even our failures and our sins are under His control.

Alistair Begg

#22. After seventy-eight days and 2,200 miles, the enterprise was in serious trouble - not from crocodiles, hippos, bandits, diseases, or even bureaucracy - but from simple human conflict.

Richard Bangs

#23. One cannot collect all the beautful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#24. Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

Swami Vivekananda

#25. I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

Laura Mvula

#26. I know at least two people who have never been killed by hippos.

Bill Engvall

#27. documentary The Invisible War (which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and

Nancy Sherman

#28. The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I wish there would be more stories about that to connect people to what's happening. To personalize it, to make it real to people, to inspire them to action.

John Legend

#29. One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#30. Hell, he thought maybe they were hippos in tutus doing Swan Lake, the way everything flipped and bounced.

K.C. Wells

#31. The river, it's banks as yet untamed wandered languidly through thickets of rush and papyrus. Ibises waded in the shallows; in the deeps hippos rose and sank slowly like pickled eggs.

Terry Pratchett