Quotes About Survival

Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.

The 'River Monsters' episodes acted a bit like a whodunit - there was a crime scene, maybe someone had been pulled under, and we had to find out what happened.

Let me put it this way, if you were drowning, you wouldn't really be in a place to lend a hand as far as being rescued. You'd be at the mercy of the lifeguard. Once pulled out, you may be a little out of it, not sure where you are, but safe nonetheless.

Everybody has a game plan, but the plan changes after the first punch.

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They're not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to criticize those who accommodated themselves to German occupation, with its ferocious punishments for those who expressed even the mildest opposition.

When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as they can today.

I've always pushed my body way too hard, gone days without eating at 20,000 feet, and caught every exotic bug that didn't kill me.

Running my fund in 2008 felt a little like being Noah. Noah builds his ark, and he puts his family on the ark, and off they go. So he and his family are safe, and everybody else is dying.

If a man puts a lion's family in jeopardy, what would it do? Would it enjoy fighting? Of course it wouldn't, but it's going to fight.

You know, we live in a time when if somebody wants to kill you, they're going to kill you, and you can either go in a hole and, you know, pull the roof in over you, or you just continue putting one foot in front of the other and hope that you're doing some good in the world.

On 'Flash,' you've never seen the last of anybody, no matter what happens to them.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.

Flint is a very tough place to live. The environment is definitely a different type of environment than anywhere else in the country, I feel like.

You can't flirt with relegation every year.

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly.

I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.

One cannot survive in Bollywood without focusing on entertainment.

In the apocalypse, I think those average, mediocre folks are the ones who are going to live.

My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.