Quotes About Taming A Lion

#1. 4091 East Olympic Boulevard proved to be a nondescript one-storey sandstone building of the sort you drive blithely by every day, knowing it's full of paper-pushers and clock-watchers, and nobody's in there writing a symphony or taming a lion or having an orgasm.

James K. Morrow

#2. She's as old as the hills, evil as a snake, all malevolence and magic and death.

Neil Gaiman

#3. All the while I rattled off a long list of curses in the soundproofed room of my mind.

Lia Habel

#4. Blaming has no positive effect at all

Akosua Dardaine Edwards

#5. Well, lion tamers are probably difficult to live with - I suppose there's no small amount of testosterone involved in taming lions, Vargas said, shrugging.

John Irving

#6. The beauty of merism is that it's absolutely unnecessary. It's words for words' sake: a gushing torrent of invention filled with noun and noun and signifying nothing. Why a rhetorical figure that gabs on and on for no good reason should be central to the rite of marriage is beyond me.

Mark Forsyth

#7. Do you always mix business and pleasure?" She flashed her most alluring smile.

"Miss Stockton, when you own an inn, your business is pleasure.

J.M. Maxim

#8. There's a very loud noise in my ear, not unlike a cat sneezing, if the cat is the size of the Great Sphinx of Giza and it's just inhaled three tons of snuff.

Charles Stross

#9. Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn't be limited to the wealthiest few.

Jim Clyburn

#10. A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile
to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. What's wrong with that is that it's not how the real
world works. That's why, sometimes, it's good to be
flexible. When you don't get what you want, you make
other plans.

Katie Klein

#12. The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.

Gary Wright