Ball Python Quotes & Sayings

Be the competition you wish to see in the world. — Michael P. Naughton

Give me priests. Give me men with feathers in their hair, or tall domed hats, female oracles in caves, servants of the python, smoking weed and reading palms. A gypsy fortuneteller with a foot-peddle ouija board and a gold fish bowl for a crystal ball knows more about the world than many of the great thinkers of the West. Mumbling priests swinging stink cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it — N.D. Wilson

And by the way, Sherlock Holmes is Jewish. He changed his name. I'm surprised you nerver guessed it. (p. 248) — Rebecca Goldstein

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual. — Richard Carlson

Mary Jane Clairmont, the second wife of William Godwin, and Mary Shelley's stepmother, had the idea of bringing out French fairy tales for children in an attempt to make some much needed money for the family (she has not been given her due by biographers, in my view). — Marina Warner

Their property held them in chains ... chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul ... If they stored up their treasure in heaven, they would not now have an enemy and a thief within their own household ... They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves. — Cyprian

Although her heart had been dead for years, she clasped her hands over her breast to protect what rested underneath. — Montgomery Mahaffey

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience. — Kim Edwards

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details. — Andy Warhol

Perhaps this was what love was like after all- not the lurch of going over a humpback bridge, and not the incandescence of fireworks, just the quiet understanding that one should take a kind hand when it was offered, before all light was gone from the sky. — Chris Cleave

In the inconceivably vast and humbling unknown called "everything", is a supreme inter-communication called, spirituality. — Bryant McGill

I started out, in the mid-'70s, taking photographs of rock bands that I liked but not because I really wanted to photograph them. Initially, I was pretending to be a photographer, simply so that I could go up to the front of the crowd and be a bit closer to the bands. But, I found I was gradually developing an interest in the photos I took. — Derek Ridgers

Nothing can stop you from achieving your goals if you have a deep driving persistent desire. — Debasish Mridha

The attraction between them was incendiary, yet somehow twelve years ago she'd walked away from as if he meant nothing. — Katie Reus