All Quotes

Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.
‐‐ Ingrid Newkirk

'Animal Kingdom' feels like a suburban Melbourne version of 'The Godfather 'to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.
‐‐ Betty White

'Animal Man' and 'Swamp Thing' have so many commonalities in tone and mood.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire

Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.
‐‐ Robert Winston

Animal testing is needless, especially in cosmetics.
‐‐ Leona Lewis

Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.
‐‐ Sylvia Browne

Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
‐‐ Sam Kean

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.
‐‐ Cathy Guisewite

Animal welfare must be a priority, and we need to switch to less industrial production methods.
‐‐ Pim Fortuyn

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.
‐‐ James Ransone

Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
‐‐ D. A. Pennebaker

Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
‐‐ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life to trying to improve their lives.
‐‐ Betty White

Animals are not cute. They are disturbing. Pigs do eat their young. Actually, I hate pigs. I just happen to have some who are friends of mine.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
‐‐ Alfred A. Montapert

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
‐‐ Terence McKenna

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
‐‐ Edward Hoagland

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
‐‐ George Eliot

Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves.
‐‐ Graham Phillips

Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive.
‐‐ Loretta Swit

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.
‐‐ Stefanie Powers

Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
‐‐ Ingrid Newkirk

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.
‐‐ Kenneth Grahame

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
‐‐ Malcolm de Chazal

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
‐‐ Vernor Vinge

Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.
‐‐ Bruce Greenwood

Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped.
‐‐ Paul Rodriguez

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
‐‐ Betty White

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
‐‐ Emmylou Harris

Animals have always been a passion of mine, being able to help them because they can't help themselves, and I think that people have treated them so badly over the years and it's just not fair. It's something I feel like I can help make a difference.
‐‐ Shannon Elizabeth

Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.
‐‐ Jon Katz

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.
‐‐ Aimee Teegarden

Animals in general have sparked a weird depression in me, because as much as I tried, I couldn't layer a personality over them. You know what I mean? I would stare at the cows, and I would sing to the cows, and they would always just look at me blankly.
‐‐ Kristen Schaal

Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
‐‐ Eddie Izzard

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

Animals interest me more than anything else.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
‐‐ Aaron Carter

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.
‐‐ Shannon Elizabeth