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For the past few days I've been planning my day around a spider. This giant wolf spider comes out at sunset every night and just sits in front of my front door and it makes me not want to leave my house. |
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| Diane Ackerman |
For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones. |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. |
| Gaston Bachelard |
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. |
| Edward Abbey |
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. |
| Jill Abramson |
I'm a huge dog nut - giant, giant. |
| Alex Garland |
It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there. |
| Lauren Cohan |
I always think family get-togethers when everybody just sort of crashes out are pretty much the best. If it's more than a few days it gets hard, but for just a few days, it's the most amazing thing ever. |
| Rabindranath Tagore |
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. |
| Harriet Ann Jacobs |
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. |
| Tony Abbott |
I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels. |
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