I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.
Kathryn Harrison
DaughterVisionEyesLionMeFamous
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Daniel Defoe
LeadershipLionBetterArmySheep
An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Walter Winchell
LionScenerySomeoneOptimistWho
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte
LionGovernmentI AmSometimesFox
I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!
Garth Davis
WorkStarsTimeLionPastMe
What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
Cam Newton
PetLionI AmYouHousePerson
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Baltasar Gracian
DogLionManSeventyNothingThirty
Eyeliner is a go-to for me, and gold has always been a color that I really like. It's reminiscent of a lion; it's a strong color.
Jillian Hervey
LionMeGoldColorStrongAlways
I'm a middle child, so I have middle-child syndrome. With a middle child, you always have to take in everything and adjust and maybe compromise a little bit so you're able to see both sides of an issue. I'm also a Leo - I love astrology - so that affected me, just being a lion.
Jessica Williams
LoveLionChildMeCompromiseYou
In 2006, I hung out with The Carter Center as they monitored the Palestinian elections. Nobody thought Hamas would win. Hamas did not think Hamas could win. The lion's share of folks I spoke to who were voting for them were not actually voting for Hamas but against Fatah.
Maysoon Zayid
LionWinThinkThoughtVotingOut
I moved at age 22 to Montana to be able to walk in really wild woods, where the chances of being killed by a bear or mountain lion are not zero.
Michael Finkel
AgeWalkLionMountainWoodsWild
The more we allow Republicans to concentrate the lion's share of wealth in the hands of a few, the more power these wealthy few will have. And they will use this power to continue rewriting the rules of both our economy and our political system in their favor.
Tom Steyer
PowerLionPoliticalHandsRules
Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.
Juan Williams
LionRoseBecomeLiberalTeddy
There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.
Dennis Hastert
LionEndLawyersClientsMoreLimit
I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.
Brian Fallon
GodLionNeverRealReadWardrobe
What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.
William Moseley
GoodHopeLionWantActorBecome
I carry around this little lion named Leo, which I've had for as long as I can remember.
Shawn Mendes
LionRememberLongI CanLittleLeo
We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.
Tippi Hedren
LionLivingOutsideMissouriHad
If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.
Marlon Wayans
FunnyLionStrongYouMonkeyCross
'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.
James Wolcott
LifeStarsLionCreativeKingKnow
The lion's share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.
Enda Kenny
LionFinancialIrishEconomyFault
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Charles de Gaulle
LifeLionMeReadingMy LifeAsk
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the Great
LeadershipLionI AmArmySheepLed
This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare it can fetch several thousand pounds at auction. I always wanted to be an author, and I decided to write about what I knew.
Wilbur Smith
LionBackRunWriteFirstRare
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