I'm a great admirer of Primo Levi's work. It's always mind-boggling, the idea of how much pain people can endure and still come back from the edge with a sense of humor, with this tremendous animal desire we have to get on with life.
Allan Gurganus
LifeWorkGreatHumorPainAnimal
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
CourageAnimalMoralBraveryHigher
I wear only animal socks. I went to Koreatown and got a hundred packs of panda and money prints.
Sofia Richie
MoneyAnimalSocksWearGotOnly
People come to me and say, 'What'll I do if I go in the water and see a shark?' You don't have to do anything. The chances of that shark attacking you in any way is so remote. The sea should be enjoyed, the animals in it. When you see a shark underwater, you should say, 'How lucky I am to see this beautiful animal in his environment!'
Eugenie Clark
SeaBeautifulWaterI AmAnimalMe
I have three dogs, a cat, fish. I'm a huge animal lover. They're amazing.
Willow Shields
AnimalAmazingFishThreeDogsCat
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo
ManAnimalIgnorantAwareFactHe
The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.
Shoshana Zuboff
LifeAnimalProcessBehaviorBody
I just came home and said, 'I'm a vegetarian.' My parents were very kind about it. And then, I became a vegan a year or two after that. Animal cruelty really got to me.
Emily Deschanel
HomeAnimalParentsMeYearSaid
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt
ManAnimalActingNeverHeHimself
I love a wild animal print. Not just a leopard print - I'm talking about a tiger or zebra print, too.
Tan France
LoveAnimalTalkingTigerWildJust
Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world.
Tom Hodgkinson
AnimalWorldThinkSlowLongNow
The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.
Ellsworth Huntington
AnimalStupidBuffaloSurprisingly
The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated.
Peter Malkin
AnimalProblemMoreHumanMonster
Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of modern medicine. Genetics owes a huge debt to the humble fruit fly. There's almost no branch of the life sciences, in fact, that hasn't leaned heavily on one animal or another.
Sam Kean
LifeHumbleAnimalFlyMedicine
The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest 'weaknesses'; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.
Robert Baden-Powell
KindnessPainAnimalPeopleKnow
Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal.
David Quammen
LiveAnimalLivingSomewhereVirus
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
Peter Singer
AnimalImportantHumanExperiment
I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
Sadie Frost
AnimalMePersonDeadNeverFur
One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.
Robert T. Bakker
AnimalSickPlantBadThings Happen
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.
David Attenborough
AnimalBirdsWorldThinkKnowGroup
My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.
Peter Dinklage
FamilyHabitAnimalRememberI Can
Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.
Rachel Hunter
AnimalKingMostStoriesOnce
When I was presenting 'Animal Hospital,' the grey started to creep into my beard and moustache. I used my wife's mascara to darken it.
Rolf Harris
WifeAnimalBeardGreyHospital
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.
Cynthia Ozick
AnimalCareerBornStraightforward
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