Tikki Quotes

#1. It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

Rudyard Kipling

#2. They gave him a little piece of raw meat. Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots. Then he felt better.

Rudyard Kipling

#3. Well," said Rikki-tikki, and his tail began to fluff up again, "marks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest?

Rudyard Kipling

#4. (Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi)

Rudyard Kipling

#5. Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy's shoulder,

Ruskin Bond

#6. every predator loves easy prey. Her lip curled, baring fangs that there was no one there to see. Because she wasn't prey. In the vamp world, she was pretty much the apex predator, the mongoose to his snake. And she was about to Rikki Tikki Tavi his ass. Dory

Karen Chance

#7. Because of Kipling, I've sometimes wondered about keeping a mongoose about the house. But given the cobra population in Silver Spring, Maryland - zero, when last I checked - we hardly need a Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.

Michael Dirda

#8. Who has delivered us, who? Tell me his nest and his name. Rikki, the valiant, the true, Tikki, with eyeballs of flame, Rikk-tikki-tikki, the ivory-fanged, the hunter with eyeballs of flame!

Rudyard Kipling

#9. Back then, eating was also a means of beautification, since the more aloo tikki and murukku you consumed, the more likely you'd reach a voluptuousness akin to an American size ten or twelve, required for looking good in a sari.

Padma Lakshmi

#10. Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself. But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls.

Rudyard Kipling

#11. Nag coiled himself down, coil by coil, round the bulge at the bottom of the water jar, and Rikki-tikki stayed still as death.

Rudyard Kipling

#12. (Here Rikki-tikki interrupted, and the rest of the song is lost.)

Rudyard Kipling

#13. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

Malcolm McDowell

#14. He needed a light. And he made it. Love was his shout into the wind. Same

Pierce Brown

#15. 'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive.

Brent Weeks

#16. I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

Arne Jacobsen

#17. Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

J.D. Salinger

#18. Make sure that you're nurturing your process. It's the only thing you can truly control, and it's the thing you'll always have regardless of where you end up.

Todd Henry

#19. To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.

William Shakespeare

#20. The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

John Steinbeck

#21. quite as heavily upon his noble steed. His friends and the above-mentioned fraternity chuckled and winked behind his back, but although Mr. P. heard them chuckle and knew that they were winking, his belief

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