Quotes About Hippos

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

Marilyn Johnson

#2. 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

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

K.C. Wells

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

Bill Engvall

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Avinash Kaushik

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

William Kamkwamba

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

Thom Yorke

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

Jared Diamond

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

Elizabeth Wein

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

George Ayittey

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

Jack Kerouac

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#18. 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

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

Nancy Sherman

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Alistair Begg

#23. 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

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

Freida Pinto

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

Roselyn Brown

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Mohamed ElBaradei

#29. 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

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

Amit Abraham

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

Dan Quayle