A Quote by Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

Karl Kraus

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Just Like Psychoanalysis Rabbit See Swallowed Wanted

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Karl Kraus
Austrian - Writer
April 28, 1874 - June 12, 1936

Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And I don't like it--one bit. Well, what do you know? It's nibblin' my toe. Oh, gee, It's up to my knee. Oh my, It's up to my thigh. Oh, fiddle, It's up to my middle. Oh, heck, It's up to my neck. Oh, dread, It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff . . .

Shel Silverstein

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

Noel Coward

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

Terry Eagleton

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.

Stevie Nicks

I have a red-tail Columbian boa constrictor named 'Jade.'

Danny Green

Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.

Mira Grant

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

Tom Robbins

It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.

George Stevens

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

Agnes Repplier

Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned.

J. K. Rowling

It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round its opponent, crushes it in its folds, and finally causes it to disappear in its capaciousinterior....Hinduism has embraced Sikhism in its folds; the still comparatively young religion is making a vigorous struggle for life, but its ultimate destruction is, it is apprehended, inevitable without State support.

Max Arthur Macauliffe

I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is the most powerful submission in the sport. It is a beautiful thing. You're holding them into you, their back is on you, and you are basically choking them gradually like a boa constrictor and once you've got them, the pressure goes on and they have to submit or they are going to stop breathing. It happened to me early in my career, and I panicked, and gave in, I tapped out too early. I learned a lot from that. I learned from it, learned how to do the move better, learned how to avoid it being done to me.