Salamander Quotes

#1. We cannot live in a bubble, Mr. Mundy. Comfortable ignorance is not a solution. In German student societies that I was not permitted to join, they made a toast: 'Better to be a salamander, and live in the fire.'" After

John Le Carre

#2. Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.

Christopher Titus

#4. My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye

Thom Yorke

#5. The smoke is a signal; it means the Salamander is coming. For she is a war-torn disaster, and her comfort is the gun.

R.R. Washburn

#6. Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.

Ricky Gervais

#7. What was I up to, you may ask? I certainly didn't want to meet Monsieur Evil again or creepy old Lord Salamander.

Rick Riordan

#8. She was a dragon, not a mindless mud salamander.

Robin Hobb

#9. If I'm ever unsure as to the correct course of action, I'll think, "What would a ferret do?" or, "How would a salamander respond to this situation?" Invariably, I find the right answer. I

Gail Honeyman

#10. History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul

Andrei Tarkovsky

#11. Civilization is a condition which unsocial misfits impose on the rest of popular, easygoing, family-oriented humanity. Only the miserable, the failures, the outcasts will crouch for days to observe the mating habits of a salamander.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. A smile fought its way through her expression of pain for a moment, and she said, "Yeah, it really kind of was, wasn't it? Was that a Salamander?" "Pretty sure," I said. "They're so much bigger than in those Xanth books.

Jim Butcher

#13. So the fire and its subsequent flood, wich destroyed everything left that was not flammable and added a particularly noisome flux to the survivors'problems, did not mark its end. Rather it was a fiery punctuation mark, a coal-like comma, or salamander semicolon, in a continuing story.

Terry Pratchett

#14. My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.

Thom Yorke

#15. I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#16. You can put suspenders on a salamander, but it still won't make waffles. See what I mean? That sentence makes absolutely no sense, but I got paid to write it. It's printed right here in a published book!

Dave Barry

#17. Damn Jeremy, you need to work on your vocabulary. So many good names to call me and the best you could come up with is bitch? Give me the salamander before you hurt yourself."
"Suck my dick ... whore!

Ilona Andrews

#18. What I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.

Kanye West

#19. I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

Dave Barry

#20. An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.

Jonathan Franzen

#21. You become what you allow yourself to become.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.

Melissa Etheridge

#23. Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.

Allen West

#24. It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.

Florence Welch

#25. We live in a world where most people only dream of what they could become and that's the problem. Everything takes effort and work; there isn't a single person that isn't thrown challenges from life

Helen Jane Rose

#26. Nothing quite encourages as does one's first unpunished crime.

Marquis De Sade

#27. Man's fatal flaw is misplaced optimism.

Allan Wolf

#28. Is something good because the gods approve of it? Or do the gods approve of it because it is good?

Socrates

#29. The original text of the Bible was perhaps written in Hebrew and Aramaic and later translated into Greek.

Sudhir Ahluwalia

#30. It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

Vin Scully

#31. My word processor has spell-check capability, which lets me add words that didn't originally come in its comprehensive dictionary. It's interesting to see what words I had to add when writing this book: feedback, throughput, overshoot, self-organization, sustainability.

Donella H. Meadows