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Quotes About Tigers

AT DINNER ONE NIGHT, Malia asked me what I was going to do about tigers. "What do you mean, sweetie?" "Well, you know they're my favorite animal, right?
~ Barack Obama
I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
~ Gerald R. Ford
It is not for nothing that tigers choose to hide in the jungle, for commerce and trade are carried on, mostly, in the open.
~ bierce ambrose ii
My own experience suggests that where there is tourism, there are tigers. And that's the reality.
~ Mohit Chauhan
Everything makes me nervous." Stevie thought a moment. "Well . . . not everything. But man-eaters definitely make me nervous." "But tigers are man-eaters . . . and you're half tiger." Stevie stared out the front window for several seconds ruminating on that bit of information before admitting, "Dear God. I'm terrified of myself.
~ Shelly Laurenston
How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.
~ Haruki Murakami
Thousands! Appah Rao's tone mocked the claim. You may have thousands, Colonel, but the Tippoo has tigers.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Chez les Tigres noirs du Sri Lanka on entrainait les femmes combatantes qui n'étaient pas vierges à passer une journée avec une grenade dans le vagin. (ch. 2)
~ Bernard-Henri Levy
Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
~ Ben Shapiro
I've always been obsessed with tigers, I love white tigers I think they're very glamourous in a weird way.
~ Alana Haim
What shall we do?' said Twoflower. 'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival; back in the olden days, his theory went, people faced with hungry sabre-toothed tigers could be divided very simply into those who panicked and those who stood there saying 'What a magnificent brute!' and 'Here, pussy.
~ Terry Pratchett
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Revenge is as the tigers spring, Deadly, and quick, and crushing; yet, as real Torture is theirs, what they inflict they feel.
~ Byron
'Tiger King.' They are absolutely gone with the fairies, they're all absolutely raving out of the box, the lot of them. All those people with animals like tigers, who've got their own zoos in America, and one guy's got something like 2,000 tigers in his back garden. It's absolutely mad.
~ Shaun Ryder
What you do in Oklahoma with tigers in these roadside zoos would be frowned on if it opened in the L.A. basin or New York. I think it's a lack of education. And people believe we should be able to have a tiger, because this is America - who should stop us?
~ Eric Goode
So many people have bad intentions, so many girls want to hang out [with me] to be someone. I weed those people out of my life. I call them hungry tigers.
~ Paris Hilton
the frisson of fear that comes from knowing that you're safe even while the tigers noisily devour your neighbor.
~ Charles Todd
I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
~ Gerald R. Ford
Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.
~ Philip Kerr
They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.
~ Henry Noel Brailsford
Rescued me from the darkest heart of the forest, fought off brigands, pygmies, and a brace of tigers to bring me here. But don't let him talk his Welsh at you, one tiger was vanquished in a sluice of phlegm and mortally beaten with consonants.
~ Christopher Moore
There are no tigers for us, just a city, waiting, and it loves us, in whatever ways a city can love.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.
~ Roderick Haig-Brown
Your every emotion goes right over the top with a big audience. It's either laughter or tears, with no in-between. Those tigers in zoos, they must have a big opera all the time.
~ Chuck Palahniuk