The Zoo Story Quotes & Sayings

People misinterpret my passion for anger. — Charlie Sheen

The power of words to deceive is a danger far exceeding any we might encounter from physical weapons. Sticks and stones can break bones! But words can lead worlds into ruin! — Steve Bivans

Female Chauvinist Pigs don't bother to question the criteria on which women are judged, they are too busy judging other women themselves — Ariel Levy

The newspapers were against me. They were telling me that the Australian dream was a home. But that dream became worse and worse as they had to live further away from the city. My dream became better as we could build higher and higher. — Harry Triguboff

We need to remember that the primary goal of Aikido is harmony and good relations between people. If we don't cultivate a harmonious heart along with technical skill, there will be a lack of integration in our practice, which will show up in behavior off the mat. — Linda Holiday

Music wasn't history class; I didn't need to memorize a thousand dates and names. — Leila Sales

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest. — Keegan Allen

If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read - if you wait for the time, you will never do it. 'Cause there ain't no time; world don't want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week. — Harry Crews

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity. — Marie Corelli

I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego. — Richard C. Armitage

Always try to be modest, and be proud of it! — Steven Wright

For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is doing to the world, and the animals have retribution. But in the real world, this would not happen. But in the world of 1984, this kind of thing can happen in a story. — James Patterson

Best day of my life was January 9, 1997. I was eight years old and my mom and I went to the zoo on a class trip. I liked the bears. She liked the monkeys. Best day ever. End of story. — John Green

If I did not have my work, I would not have any life. — Temple Grandin

I can feel his soul through his lips. It's telling me a story of agony over how long it's waited for this moment and how it never wants it to end. — Tara Elizabeth

Imitations don't have mothers and fathers. We don't have family. We just are. Until we're not. — Heather Hildenbrand

The light of love sees no walls. — Suzy Kassem

What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy. — Edward Albee

ironically the term tolerance is used to justify intolerance toward Christianity. — Nancy Pearcey