Zoo Quotes
|
I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.
|
More Zoo Quotes
We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the Zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.
Germaine Greer— Sorrow (pg. 183)
The camel's hump is an ugly lump Which well you may see at the Zoo; But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do.
— 1902 Just So Stories,'How the Camel Got His Hump'.
The Human Zoo.
Desmond John Morris— 1969 Title of book.
My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity of the wonder of innumerable forms of life has always thrilled me beyond anything else.
oliver sacks— Personal correspondence, quoted in Stephen Jay Gould, "Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O!", Dinosaur in a Haystack (Harmony, 1995), p. 245
Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human Zoo.
Desmond John Morris— 1969 The Human Zoo, introduction.
Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the Zoo.
ogden nash— Quoted in Colin Jarman, The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
It has got to the point in this country where men believe they are men, just because that is their birthright. If that is true, then, by the same logic, an animal held captive in a Zoo is still a free wild beast.
william powell— Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", P.93
They have made present-day India, and Hinduism even more so, out to be a Zoo - an agglomeration of assorted, disparate specimens. No such thing as "India", just a geographical expression, just a construct of the British; no such thing as Hinduism, just a word used by Arabs to describe the assortment they encountered, just an invention of the communalists to impose a uniformity - that has been their stance. For this they have blackened the Hindu period of our history, and, as we shall see, strained to whitewash the Islamic period.
arun shourie— Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (p. x)
It could be said now that all animals live in zoos, whether it is a Zoo in Regent's Park, London or a Nigerian Game Reserve. Perhaps what's left to argue is only the Zoo's quality.
Peter Greenaway— From the introduction to the published script.
I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run Zoo.
wyndham lewis— Blasting and Bombardiering (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937) p. 12.
What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? … The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the Zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel !
roger penrose— Ch. 9, Real Brains and Model Brains, p. 383
What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? [...] The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the Zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel !
roger penrose— Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind (1989), Ch. 9
Dada remains within the framework of European weaknesses, it's still shit, but from now on we want to shit in different colors so as to adorn the Zoo of art with all the flags of all the consulates...
— Tristan Tzara in his 'Manifeste de M. Antipyrine' - 1916; as quoted in Looking at Dada, eds. Sarah Ganz Blythe & Edward D. Powers - The Museum of Modern Art New York, ISBN: 087070-705-1; p. 4
Is it one wid this you'd be, Yank — black smoke from the funnels smudging the sea, smudging the decks — the bloody engines pounding and throbbing and shaking — wid divil a sight of sun or a breath of clean air — choking our lungs wid coal dust — breaking our backs and hearts in the hell of the stokehole — feeding the bloody furnace — feeding our lives along wid the coal, I'm thinking — caged in by steel from a sight of the sky like bloody apes in the Zoo!
Eugene O'Neill— Paddy: Scene 1
