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Quotes About Bear

In Hollywood, an adventure movie with two guys doesn't quite qualify as an idea. Two guys and a bear does. It adheres to the unshakable rule that you don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
~ Twyla Tharp
She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold and the immense silence of the North.
~ Philip Pullman
I stay here and drink spirits because the men here took my armor away, and without that, I can hunt seals but I can't go to war; and I am an armored bear; war is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe.
~ Philip Pullman
Lyra's heart was thumping hard, because something in the bear's presence made her feel close to coldness, danger, brutal power, but a power controlled by intelligence; and not a human intelligence, nothing like a human, because of course bears had no dæmons
~ Philip Pullman
In his work shirt and underpants, he looked powerful but also cartoonish, like a bear dressed up for a job interview.
~ David Sedaris
If man had a tough,hairy hide like a bear,his world would be different indeed- It was through a thin , smooth skin that man loved.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Kids: If a bear is wearing a ranger hat, it's because he ate the ranger!
~ Craig Ferguson
Moving to the trailer, I watched as the Bear used a shiny cloth to remove what dust had collected on the Indian motorcycle. "Why do people ride these contraptions anyway?" He checked the tie-down straps, and stood "Freedom." "Freedom to be an organ donor."...
~ Craig Johnson
I yawned and I stretched. I sure was needing some sleep, but I guess I'm always in need of sleep like I'm always in need of food. Because my labors were mighty ones--ol' Hercules didn't know what hard work was--and what is there to do but eat and sleep? And when you're eatin' and sleepin' you don't have to fret about things you can't do nothing about. And what else is there to do but laugh an' joke...how else can you bear up under the unbearable?
~ Jim Thompson
Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.
~ Blaise Pascal
pretending that Shiloh's a bear, tryin' to get in. The more they squeal, the more Shiloh wiggles about, tryin' to get his nose under the edge of the sheet, tail going ninety miles an hour. If that dog had wings, he'd fly, except his propeller would be on the wrong end.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Era questa, la carne dell'orso:ed ora che sono passati molti anni, rimpiango di averne mangiata poca, poiché, di tutto quanto la vita mi ha dato di buono, nulla ha avuto, neppure alla lontana, il sapore di quella carne, che è il sapore di essere forti e liberi, liberi anche di sbagliare, e padroni del proprio destino.
~ Primo Levi
After all, a society with such an enlightened tolerance of corruption and savagery needed to bear down hard on minor offenses to convince itself that it still had standards.
~ Dean Koontz
And bring her around to bear witness to my beautiful exploded cow and the villainy it represents.
~ Dean Koontz
To hell with the Red Flower," I muttered. I seized one of the trout by the tail, ran forward, and belted the bear across the nose with it as hard as I could.
~ Diana Gabaldon
like he wouldn't give the road to a bear.
~ Diana Gabaldon
There is one class to whom reflection is a fault; is not only a fault, is a sin; is not only a sin, is an atrocity - who cannot bear to exist without their own existence dis-existencing somebody else's existence.
~ Unknown
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not the inventor, then at least one of the first systematizers of an absurd critical practice that, as soon as it had peeked its beak out of the nest, flapping its new wet wings, took flight in the minds of the young, becoming a wild ox and sowing avant-garde literature with the mighty tomes of what might as well be called the abstract bear.
~ Louis Aragon
Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed...
~ Unknown
What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?
~ Diane Setterfield
There wasn't supposed to be any bear on this island; according to Google, there wasn't supposed to be any animal here larger than a raccoon. But what if Google was wrong?
~ J.A. Konrath
A great White Bear waits outside. He has faithfully promised to make us all rich if he can but have our youngest daughter.
~ Unknown
Why do you file off the front sight of your 1911 when going into bear country?" his father had asked. "So it doesn't hurt as much when the grizzly shoves it up your ass.
~ Unknown
getting run up a tree by a bear was part of the adventure and the fun of Glacier Park;
~ Unknown