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Quotes About Reptile

How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale!
~ Lewis Carroll
What's an alligator?" Kaz asked. He'd never seen a figure like the one Claire projected onto the cabinet wall. "It's a reptile that lives in Florida," Claire explained. Kaz didn't know what Florida was, either.
~ Dori H. Butler
The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
lizard juice
~ Louis Sachar
oh shit that's a SNAKE—
~ S.D. Perry
As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
~ Padgett Powell
Used to have a pet turtle named George.
~ Frances Mayes
wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!
~ Frank Herbert
I've only seen one snake out in the wilderness, not behind glass, and I froze. I literally couldn't move. So to say I have a fear of snakes would be true.
~ Jeff Nichols
and on Fridays, we have snake fries for dinner. You have to go out and catch your own snake. Then you fry it up and —
~ Ann M. Martin
AMPHISBÆNA  (AMPHISBÆ'NA)   n.s.[Lat.    serpent supposed to have two heads. That the amphisbæna, that is, a smaller kind of serpent, which moveth forward and backward, hath two heads, or one at either extreme, was affirmed by Nicander, and others.Brown'sVulgar Errours,b. iii.
~ Samuel Johnson
Then I began filming a world that I knew quite a bit about. I was peripherally involved in that world much of my life - the exotic reptile world, the collectors, the dealers, the smugglers.
~ Eric Goode
Everybody already knows what Godzilla is.
~ Dean Devlin
it was my last night in northern Fujian and I felt I had to eat snake.
~ Fuchsia Dunlop
I knew a notorious reptile dealer who would send me animals for Area. I regret that. I mean, the landlord had wolves and an arctic fox upstairs and quite possibly a tiger.
~ Eric Goode
Given the choice between finding Godzilla and David Chambers on her doorstep, she'd have opted for the reptile, and never mind it wasn't the one who had the law degree.
~ Sandra Marton
viborilla amarillenta daba de picotazos
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
If only we could reach back before the concept, could write on a level with the senses, record the infinitesimal variations of what we touch, do what a reptile would do if it were to set about writing!
~ Emil Cioran
Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile into a mammal or to convert a fish into an amphibian. Microevolution looks at adaptations that concern the survival of the fittest, not the arrival of the fittest... The origin of species — Darwin's problem — remains unsolved.
~ Scott F. Gilbert
They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.
~ Scott O'Dell
The snake said nothing in return. Snakes do not need to justify their behavior.
~ Stephen King
This flying reptile lived in the Cretaceous period. It vanished 65 million years ago.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas
~ Will Christopher Baer
Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
~ Julia Roberts