All Quotes

Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.
‐‐ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.
‐‐ Peter Singer

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
‐‐ Robert Anton Wilson

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
‐‐ Aaron Carter

Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

Animals raised on corn produce fattier meat, but it's not just that it's fattier, it's the kinds of fats. Corn-fed beef produces lots of saturated fats. So that the heart disease we associate with eating meat is really a problem with corn-fed meat. If you eat grass-fed beef, it has much more of the nutritional profile of the wild meat.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

Animals represent the abstract notion of acceptance. Living with these funny creatures - you kind of have to accept them. It's like a test in a way.
‐‐ Shaun Tan

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.
‐‐ Bernadette Peters

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.
‐‐ Mary Roach

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.
‐‐ Julia Child

Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.
‐‐ Alyssa Milano

Animals, until you have kids of your own, animals are your kids.
‐‐ Nikki Reed

Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.
‐‐ Peter Dinklage

Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood

Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.
‐‐ Sheryl Lee

Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.
‐‐ Kenneth Grahame

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
‐‐ Charles Darwin

Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?
‐‐ Gore Verbinski

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.
‐‐ Annette Funicello

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.
‐‐ Marc Davis

Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it's not really like anything else because you are only providing a portion of the performance. That's very inspiring and it forces you to do things in a different way - to tell stories through your voice.
‐‐ David Tennant

Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

Animation is a technique, not a genre.
‐‐ Gore Verbinski

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
‐‐ Brad Bird

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
‐‐ Norman McLaren

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
‐‐ John Lasseter

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
‐‐ John Lasseter

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
‐‐ Ralph Bakshi

Animation is very singular. Like, even the 'Toy Story' movies. People will go, 'Oh, gosh, you're so lucky, getting to play opposite Tom Hanks!' And it's, like, 'It may have appeared to be that, but we were never in the room together.'
‐‐ Annie Potts

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.
‐‐ Douglas Wood

Animation translates well to a small screen. When you look at Walt Disney or Chuck Jones - you know, Bugs Bunny - there really isn't any difference if you watch on a very big screen or a computer screen.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
‐‐ Hayao Miyazaki

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
‐‐ Darren Aronofsky

Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, feverish loyalty of the fans of the genre has been such a life-changing influence for me that I wanted to do everything I possibly could to help give something back to them.
‐‐ Steven Blum

Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.
‐‐ Steven Blum

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
‐‐ M. Night Shyamalan

Animosity is not a policy.
‐‐ Henry Cabot Lodge

Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life.
‐‐ Isabel Gillies

Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view about acting and doesn't seem jaded at all. She seems more like a student and yet she is veteran actor who really brings it.
‐‐ Sam Rockwell

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.
‐‐ Ann Demeulemeester

Ann Romney has been front-and-center. She's held a lot of town halls, a lot of campaign rallies, on her own, separate from her husband. And she is dynamite out on the campaign trail.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

Ann Romney... looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.
‐‐ Juan Williams

Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.
‐‐ Nikki Haley

Anna Campbell and I have already done a history tour of parts of the U.K., and it would be fun to invite my fellow Word Wench Cara Elliott along, too!
‐‐ Nicola Cornick

Anna Deavere Smith's new one-woman show bills itself as being about health care, but the truth is that 'Let Me Down Easy' is mostly about the grimmer subject of death and dying.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

Anna Held's birthdate and hometown are a dark mystery, thanks to her own mythmaking.
‐‐ Eve Golden