Venomless Quotes

#1. I was familiar with humans at this point only from afar, but even from there, I found them a pitiable species: scaleless, fangless, clawless, nearly furless, wingless, venomless, witless.
I honestly didn't understand how they had thrived so.

Patrick Jennings

#2. I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.

Ida Lupino

#3. We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.

Francis Picabia

#4. He could burn her up alive; he could do it in a minute flat, and that's not easy to forget.

Alice Hoffman

#5. Doctrine severed from practice is dead; practice severed from doctrine is just another form of self-salvation and self-improvement. A disciple of Christ is a student of theology.

Michael S. Horton

#6. I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I find the world of fine art photography to be pretty silly and pretentious.

Michael Light

#7. I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf, And me an' my friends can walk towards you with our hats on backwards in a menacing way, Yo!

Terry Pratchett

#8. You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

Seamus Heaney

#9. HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to ...

Robin McKinley

#10. Desiring the exhilarations of changes:
The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon ...

Wallace Stevens

#11. There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#12. Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Leon Wieseltier