Quotes with jungle

  • (On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album. What?!?

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  • Luther Burbank If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
    Luther Burbank
    American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Candace Bushnell 'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson (On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album. What?!?
    Iron Maiden: Flight 666
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bette Davis Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Mohsin Hamid Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Brendan Fraser George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Norman Mailer Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Arna Bontemps Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
    Arna Bontemps
    American poet, novelist and librarian
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  • Peter de Vries Life is a zoo in a jungle.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • René Daumal Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Arthur Miller Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Bill McKibben Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Candace Bushnell The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Bronislaw Malinowski The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.
    Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926)
    Bronislaw Malinowski
    Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884 - 1942)
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  • Desmond Morris The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.
    Desmond Morris
    British zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter (1928 - )
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  • Byron Howard The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Abraham Polonsky Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?.
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Stephen King What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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