Snake Quotes

#1. He sighed and rolled his eyes. "Unbelievable. I leave you alone for two hours and you fall off a cliff, get attacked by a crow and a snake explodes all over you." "Pretty

Karina Halle

#2. Buddy of yours?" Manfred asked, when he was sure his voice would be even.
"I don't think snake-shifters have buddies," Lemuel said. "They just know people they haven't tried to eat yet.

Charlaine Harris

#3. One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin
only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

Frank Herbert

#4. What have you come to Earth for?'
'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said.
'Ah!' said the snake.
And they were both silent.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#5. I'd like to make it very clear that getting bitten by a venomous snake is dumb, clumsy and nothing to be proud of.

Romulus Whitaker

#6. You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.

Steve Irwin

#7. The tango, by 1914, had been officially declared immoral, and dancers went through its showy steps under threat of being dragged off the floor to jail unless light was visible between the partners and they refrained from doing any demoralizing dance steps, like "snake-wiggling" at the shoulders.

Christine Wiltz

#8. As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.

Ramakrishna

#9. Young George spent more money on one day of his Inauguration Ceremonies than Richard Nixon did on his whole Campaign in 1972 - and Nixon was crucified as a Criminal Spendthrift with the ethics of a snake.

Hunter S. Thompson

#10. The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people. The Roanokes are rich like pharoahs and crazier'n a snake-fucking baby.

Warren Ellis

#11. I think attempting to sell people an easy fix for pain is the worst kind of snake oil.

Brene Brown

#12. Doubt is an awful snake of an emotion. Once it has you in it's grip, it won't let go. It spoils everything.

Peter Watson

#13. I'm one of those people who snake through the crowd, keep my head low. I'm not looking for attention.

Julian Lennon

#14. But a new thing, a great hitch, had happened yesterday in the gliding and noiseless current of his life, and he felt as a snake must feel who has sloughed off its winter skin, and cannot understand the brightness and sensitiveness of its new one.

Thomas Hardy

#15. If he had the cleft tongue of a devil, or the snake hair of a Medusa, or the matted hair of a wolf-monster, Akhmed might understand. But Ramazan had two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, pairs of arms and legs and ears, hair greasy, but not slimy and certainly not slithering, and Akhmed did not understand.

Anthony Marra

#16. Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?

Toni Morrison

#17. Cricket could barely believe her eyes... but when that shotgun went off with a boom, so did the snake. Up until yesterday, Cricket has never seen a snake fly!

Darwun St. James

#18. At times Maharajji's behavior reminds me of a story Ramakrishna tells of a saint who asked a snake not to bite but to love everyone. The snake agreed. But then many people threw things at the snake. The saint found the snake all battered. "I didn't say not to hiss," said the saint.

Ram Dass

#19. The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.

Katherine Mansfield

#20. Real love's beautiful, elusive, and mean as a snake.

J.D. Robb

#21. He pulled my arm out to expose my bracelet. "When I carved this, my thoughts were on you, love. Your life is like this snake's coils. No matter how many turns it makes, you'll end up back where you belong. With me." His sapphire eyes held a promise. - Valek

Maria V. Snyder

#22. Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!"
"I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.

Georgette Heyer

#23. Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that.
We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough ...

Charles Bukowski

#24. The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

D.H. Lawrence

#25. I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

Edward Abbey

#26. Zia's senile grandfather? Nope. That was Ra, god of the sun, first divine pharaoh of Egypt and archenemy of Apophis. Last spring we'd gone on a quest to find him and revive him from his twilight sleep, trusting he would rise in all his glory and fight the Chaos snake for us.

Rick Riordan

#27. The ground under their feet rolled violently as if a giant snake was pushing through.

A.O. Peart

#28. See a charmer and you're bound to see a snake nearby,

Alice Hoffman

#29. We are in our own dark Eden where the snake is not selling the Tree of Knowledge. He is selling love, and if you take a bite of that apple, you will go the way of Abel when this is clearly the land of Cain.

Shane Kuhn

#30. Tedium is the worst pain. the mind lays out the world in blocks, and the hushed blood waits for revenge. all order, i've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal - a harmless sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world - two snake pits.

John Gardner

#31. I went out in my yard and saw a snake, so I got really scared, and I came back inside to get a shovel, and beat the hell out of that snake. Then I didn't have cable for a week.

Charlie Viracola

#32. The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god.

Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.

Aaron Shepard

#33. The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox.

Maneka Gandhi

#34. All day and all night my desire for you unwinds like a poisonous snake.

Samar Sen

#35. They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#36. If there is no snake at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road.

Andre Dubus III

#37. I guess if you choose to trust a snake, you deserve his venom.

Mia Sheridan

#38. Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Ambrose Bierce

#39. Where are the people?" resumed the little prince at last. "It's a little lonely in the desert ... " "It is lonely when you're among people, too," said the snake.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#40. This story is about stink, after all, a story about rot, about how life grows out of the most fetid-smelling places. I leaned into the wall of the coiled cabin, snail, the body curled in upon itself, spine coiled, a snake lying in wait.

Larissa Lai

#41. Huh," groaned Father Gabe. "I sympathize with you, Tommy. Relationships can be a crap shoot. You think you're going to roll a seven and up pops snake eyes.

Robert Hobkirk

#42. The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: I say, is that a sn

Bill Bryson

#43. Life begins before a soul is born and commences once again with the act of dying, and as in the Afro-Asian symbol of the snake of eternity swallowing its tail, all is in flux, all comes full circle, with no beginning and no end.

Peter Matthiessen

#44. Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.

Toni Morrison

#45. A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.

Peter Benchley

#46. Learning that a snake was afraid when it bit didn't mean it would never bite again.

A.R. Ivanovich

#47. Have you ever studied a snake's face? - how optimistic they look. They have an eternal smile.

Tasha Tudor

#48. The black snake of wounded vanity had been gnawing at his heart all night.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#49. So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose.

Nick Bantock

#50. The kundalini energy is often compared to a snake that is coiled up. Because it is coiled up it can spring very quickly. It can jump and extend itself very far.

Frederick Lenz

#51. Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#52. I've learned that when evil crawls out of a snake pit, you have to track it down and squash it. Then you have to assume it had babies and go looking for them too.

Robin York

#53. He is sharp," admitted the colonel, "but that's all there is to him. He can wiggle and squirm like a snake; but he's got no dignity, and no learnin', and what he don't know about law would make a book bigger than the biggest dictionary you ever saw." "Land's

George W. Ogden

#54. Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#55. Oh, yes, that - well, there is Richard Gansey the Third," Calla said, catching sight of him. "And the snake. Where is Coca-Cola?

Maggie Stiefvater

#56. Lethal like venomous snake bites the marijuana makes my eyes bright red like brake lights

Canibus

#57. Fillet of a Fenny Snake,
In the Cauldron boyle and bake:
Eye of Newt, and Toe of Frogge,
Wooll of Bat, and Tongue of Dogge:
Adders Forke, and Blinde-wormes Sting,
Lizards legge, and Howlets wing:
For a Charme of powrefull trouble,
Like a Hell-broth, boyle and bubble

William Shakespeare

#58. The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

Robert Frost

#59. A visible shiver ran through Arthur. "Can you imagine letting him touch you? Be like kissing a snake that'd been dipped in snot."
"Oh, now there's a mental image." Eric wrinkled his nose. "You have such a talent for description.

Cecilia Ryan

#60. A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

D.H. Lawrence

#61. As long as you are crawling like a snake on this earth do not hope to swim like fish in the sea of Spirit.

Rumi

#62. Of all the things I expected to find in my lunch, a live snake wasn't one of them.

Peter James West

#63. Batterers aren't renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts.

Stephen White

#64. Most people know who Pegasus is, for instance, but few realize that he was born from the blood of snake-headed Medusa immediately after she was slain by Perseus. The luminous winged stallion of the Greeks emerged from the life force of womanly wisdom in its darkest, most disturbing aspect,

Linda Kohanov

#65. Life was not fair, it simply existed. If you accidentally stepped on a poison snake, you got bitten. Intentions were irrelevant.

Terry Goodkind

#66. If you came into the theater believing in the talking snake, it's kind of hard to leave the theater still believing in the talking snake.

Bill Maher

#67. The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.

Robert A. Heinlein

#68. Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

R.C. Sproul

#69. Coelho is, of course, entitled to his dumb opinion, just as I am entitled to think Coelho's work is a nauseous broth of egomania and snake-oil mysticism with slightly less intellect, empathy and verbal dexterity than the week-old camembert I threw out yesterday.

Stuart Kelly

#70. When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.

William Gurney Benham

#71. I made $3,000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash. That was a bad situation, because I bought ridiculous stuff. I bought a snake bite emergency kit. Then I said to my friends, "Don't even worry about snakes anymore". My friend stepped on a worm, and I said, "Lay down!"

Mitch Hedberg

#72. Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes,

James Cameron

#73. All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

Rufus Wainwright

#74. Were you lying?"
"I never lie," he said piously. "About what?"
"The sand, the snake."
For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

Megan Whalen Turner

#75. A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.

Chinua Achebe

#76. He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper; the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.

John Eldredge

#77. There must be snakes," George said. "Isn't this place everything a snake could want? Cool, made of stone, lots of holes to slither in and out of, lots of mice to eat ... Why am I still talking? Simon, make me stop talking ...

Cassandra Clare

#78. The rod that beat you is broken but you have no reason to be glad. A snake's egg hatches a flying dragon -- The Rule of Void

Ekene Onuorah

#79. I think there's a point to regulating, because there are snake oil companies.

Anne Wojcicki

#80. How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse!"
Grover shrugged. "It's nature," he said. "Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse.

Jeanne DuPrau

#81. I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.

Maggie Cheung

#82. Though I knew I had the potential to do this locked in me like a poisonous pet snake, I knew I didn't have the part of a person you must have to turn that potential kinetic, to be the kind of person who can let their awful plow.

Catherine Lacey

#83. He kissed my palm, lingering his lips on my skin. Then he inhaled.
"Mmmm," he moaned. " Like gin to an alcoholic. Sweet as fresh molasses and deadly as snake venom.

Kellie Thacker

#84. One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition to be a snake charmer ... It was either some bank commercial or something where they wanted a guy charming a snake ... I remember they wanted to know if I actually knew how to snake charm.

Aasif Mandvi

#85. That is a trial I must face," Veka said.
"No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.

Jim C. Hines

#86. But don't worry," she continued. "Most snakes don't want to hurt you. If you're out in the bush and a snake comes along, just stop dead and let it slide over your shoes."
This, I decided, was the least-likely-to-be-followed advice I have ever been given.

Bill Bryson

#87. Voodoo Beer?"
"In honor of Loa and Boa for chasing away death." "That was a big snake, wasn't it?""It was a seriously large snake ...

Kresley Cole

#88. When I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly, that I would be a writer. Before that, I thought I would be a forward in the NBA. And before that I thought that I would own a snake farm.

John Lurie

#89. Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake.

Terry Pratchett

#90. I could never date a guy with a pet snake.

Genesis Rodriguez

#91. It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was as blank as the desert; the next minute the snake of suspicion had slithered into her thoughts and raised its poisonous head.

Thrity Umrigar

#92. Bellona and Augustus, blood enemies, both watch me as you would a snake. I killed one of their sons and embarrassed the other's. I do believe this may become awkward.

Pierce Brown

#93. If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up , he will roll over to prove that he is dead. [Footnote:] While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.

Will Cuppy

#94. Then the snake and the scorpion were gone, and he held a milky plastic syringe in his left hand. " 'If God made anything better, he kept it for himself.' You know the expression, Case?

William Gibson

#95. That poor innocent snake was far more terrified of Nana then she ever was of the snake. Cricket could barely believe her eyes, but when that shotgun went off with a boom so did the snake. Up until yesterday, Cricket had never seen a snake fly!

Darwun St. James

#96. Never wound a snake; kill it.

Harriet Tubman

#97. ...the wires he wore had grown all through him, as the roots of trees replace the flesh of corpses; and the vast coils of the whale's brain wrapped around him like a gray constricting snake. I pitied him: but it was probably stray feedback from the Net...

Raphael Carter

#98. I'm a big fan of the whip ... That snake whip was awesome!

Lily Collins

#99. There is a patience of the wild
dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself
that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food;

Jack London

#100. Tim Tebow's like the snake doctor for Florida. Gotta stop the snake doctor, keep the Gators from moving the ball ... this time he snaked Alabama with a play action pass.

Gary Danielson