Quotes by Snakes Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale. Abe Ajay snakes historical art The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole. Abraham Verghese snakes slides enough I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it. Adam Hochschild snakes please scotch To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit. Al Gore snakes space moon I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism. Alan Arkin snakes real order None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well. Alexander McCall Smith snakes arise moments Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Alexander Pope snakes lasts song No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm. Allen Ginsberg snakes flower yellow ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living. Ambrose Bierce snakes funeral science Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay. Amy Gerstler snakes vegetables fear I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison. Anais Nin snakes battle knowing I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes. Ani DiFranco snakes names games Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers Anne Rice snakes angel beautiful To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant. Anne Sexton snakes elephants god Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness. Annie Besant snakes butterfly men It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there. Anthony Trollope snakes writing art 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 snakes lonely loneliness 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 snakes flower earth [St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty. Arthur Brisbane snakes teaching men It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks. Arthur Conan Doyle snakes rocks law 1234567891011»