Quotes About Skunk

If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

A skunk is walking by. Skunks don't hurry or hide. The dogs and cats pretend not to notice them. It is best not to.

The hair compromise he finally agreed to is a white strip on the left side – geriatric punk, he'd whispered to himself – with, recently, the addition of an arresting scarlet patch. The total image is that of an alarmed skunk trapped in the floodlights after an encounter with a ketchup bottle.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

Hiver bouclé comme un bison, Hiver crispé comme la mousse de crin blanc, Hiver aux puits d'arsenic rouge, aux poches d'huile et de bitume, Hiver au goût de skunk et de carabe fumée de bois de hickory, Hiver aux prismes et aux critaux dans les carrefours de diamant noir, Hiver sans thyrses ni flambeaux, Hiver sans roses ni piscines, Hiver ! Hiver! tes pommes de cèdre de vieux fer! tes fruits de pierre! tes insectes de cuivre !

One year, the Brewers had a problem when a skunk built a nest under the stands near the home bullpen. They actually brought in animal control to trap the critter, and it became one of those light local news stories that TV stations like to deliver to viewers.

As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable French skunk pursuing his would-be kitty paramour, left his mark on me: became an instant emblem of odoriferous hubris, hedonistic bad behavior. He was an entry-level Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a rookie Marquis de Sade.

Without pretending to be quite sure what a skunk is," said the Duke, "I take you to be all that it isn't. And the high esteem in which I hold you is the measure for me of the loss that your death would be to America and to Oxford.

Hobhouse introduced Appleby. Sir David, without budging, extruded so pungent a benevolence that the effect was rather that of coming upn a skunk unawares.

But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as drunk as a skunk, Drumknott, which of course means skunks are just as drunk as I. I must say the term is unfamiliar to me, and I had not thought hitherto of skunks in this context, but Mustrum Ridcully was kind enough to enlighten me.

Oh aye. Smells like she´s eaten a pickled skunk. Hungover isn´t the word. I´ve seen people looking healthier after they´ve passed post-mortemed." (Rennie about Steel )

Here I'd finally met a good-looking man, and I was drunk as a skunk. And why a skunk, of all things? Are skunks somehow more prone to intoxication? I urgently needed to research that on the Internet.

I mean it. Stop laughin'. How'm I gonna be able to surprise anybody with skunk smell all over me? It'll probably never come out of my leather vest or my hat. Dumb animal just ruined my chance of sneak—" He broke off, clamping his jaw tight.

Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew.

Rhinoceros — battle unicorn Raccoon — trash panda Porcupine — stab rabbit Peacock — disco chicken Skunk — fart squirrel Zebra — tiger pony Giraffe — spotted stretch camel Bat — leather bird Reindeer — Christmas llama

We rested a couple of hours at noon for lunch, and the afternoon's sport was simply a repetition of the morning's, except that we had but one dog to work with; for shortly after mid-day the stub-tail pointer, for his sins, encountered a skunk, with which he waged prompt and valiant battle—thereby rendering himself, for the balance of the time, wholly useless as a servant and highly offensive as a companion.

When a skunk sprays, a lot of bystanders have to deal with the stink.

Skunk works were emblematic of corporate structures that focused on execution and devalued innovation.

The chief strong-arm enforcers for the Rizzutos at the time were Francesco "Chit" Del Balso and Lorenzo "Skunk" Giordano, two men who were about to be swept up in Canada's biggest ever mafia takedown.

Dr. Stern told me that the wilderness of Carolina is alive wi' fierce creatures—bears and wildcats and wicked panthers—and a great foul thing the Indians call a skunk!

Oh dear, is that a skunk?" Leonora asked. "No," Alessandro gasped in horror. "No the smelly cat!" "I've told you, Alessandro darling, they aren't cats." "They look like cats. Like the big fluffy cat she's been stepped on and flattened to a big fluffy pancake cat," Alessandro argued.

SCHIFFER WAS LEAVING, Dannon asked Carver to do a serious look around the yard. One of the radar buzzers had been going off, Dannon said, and he hadn't been able to isolate why. "Probably another goddamn skunk," Carver said. He pulled his jacket back on and went to look.