While Crocodile Sayings

#1. See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

Bill Haley

#2. SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as ... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. Actually, I have this random fear, and it's of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I'd rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes ... I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear.

Bindi Irwin

#4. I'm not a big scatology fan, unlike my sons, who can amuse themselves for an entire afternoon by repeating the phrase 'crocodile fart.' So I'll spare you from an overabundance of detail in this chapter. This chapter will be somewhat soft focus, like the TV camera in a Barbra Streisand interview.

A. J. Jacobs

#5. To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Ronald Reagan

#6. I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.

Wyndham Lewis

#7. No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile.

Philip K. Dick

#8. Every day, I live a lie
But not the crocodile kind.

Megan McCafferty

#9. Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.

Tom Ford

#10. He broke through the wall of men surrounding Olivia - dim-witted fowl clustered about a dozing crocodile, as he saw it - and offered to take her home.

Loretta Chase

#11. OF course they did,' she snapped back. 'According to them, you single-handedly won a dozen battles, restored the Spanish throne, and infiltrated Napoleon's inner circle, after which you rode an elephant, wrestled a crocodile, and swam the Straits of Gibraltar.

Eloisa James

#12. A beautiful, intelligent woman with a body like Salome and a mouth like a saltwater crocodile.

Craig Johnson

#13. To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.

Peter Kreeft

#14. The first contraceptive was crocodile dung," she whispered. "The Egyptians used it in 2000 BC.

Jill Shalvis

#15. However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

Ousmane Sembene

#16. That lucky fucking inanimate animal. "I want to grow up to be a stuffed crocodile.

Lauren Blakely

#17. Whatever it was, it was the size of a cow, and looked like what you'd get if you somehow managed to cross a beaver and a crocodile, looked at the results, and decided what your new monster really needed was a bunch of extra teeth.

Seanan McGuire

#18. I am trying different styles, and while you can't climb a tree or jump on a crocodile in a dress, it is nice to get dressed up every now and then and kind of walk away from the khaki for a moment.

Bindi Irwin

#19. If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.

Ronald Reagan

#20. I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.

J.M. Barrie

#21. The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

Pyotr Kapitsa

#22. No matter how long a log of wood remains in the river it does not become a crocodile

Jude Idada

#23. The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.

Steve Irwin

#24. ...but now that I know it's possible for a couple of zebras to outsmart a crocodile, life is starting to look up" -Joe

Sarah Weeks

#25. He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.

Lisa Lang

#26. Even a thirsty man will not drink at the river where a crocodile waits.

Timothy G. Bax

#27. My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.

Jamie Cullum

#28. That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true."
"That's because everything is," replied Mr. Bacchus.

Clive Barker

#29. We passed through glowering statues of monsters and gods whom I'd fought in person- the vulture Nekhbet, who'd once possessed my Gran (Long story); the crocodile Sobek, who'd tried to kill my cat (longer story); and the lion goddess Sekhmet, whom we'd once vanished with hot sauce (don't even ask)

Rick Riordan

#30. Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.

David Quammen

#31. I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

Steve Irwin

#32. Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.

Barbara Kingsolver

#33. Give me a 15-ft. crocodile any day over a bee.

Bindi Irwin

#34. I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes,
blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn,
"Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."

Bob Dylan