A Quote by Karl Pilkington

If an animal is named after what it eats, how interesting is it?

Karl Pilkington

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After Animal Eats How Interesting Named

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Karl Pilkington
British - Actor
Born: September 23, 1972

It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.

M.I.A.

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?

Joseph Wood Krutch

Well, I was named after Mick Jagger's daughter, Jade Jagger. How emasculating is it to be named after a girl! But I think I handled it well, it's not like I ended up wearing makeup and girl's pants.

Jade Puget

I grew up watching 'Scooby-Doo' and was an avid fan of Daphne. She was my favorite, and I named my first stuffed animal after her.

Sarah Jeffery

My favorite Elton John song is "Daniel"; my son is named Daniel and he's partly named after my wife's father, but also partly named after that song.

Steven Drozd

Institutes should be named after these legendary artistes. Some institute should be named after Lata Mangeshkar.

Hema Malini

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.

Hugh MacLennan

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

William S. Burroughs

The president named Obama is probably not going to repeal the bill that's named after him.

Cory Gardner

I'm actually named Matthew William Kearney: my middle name is named after my grandfather.

Mat Kearney

I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.

Quvenzhane Wallis

My middle name is actually Sigourney, I'm named after me Dad's favourite movie which is 'Alien,' named after the actress Sigourney Weaver who gives birth to an alien, I was born to believe in aliens really.

Scarlett Moffatt

I am Trella the victorious leader of the Force of Sheep rebellion. Yes the name sounds ridiculous, and I still can't believe we named a major life changing event after livestock—or actually a stuffed animal—but it made sense at the time.

Maria V. Snyder

I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.

Cyrus Broacha

Having a baby isn't so bad. If you're a female Emperor penguin in the Antarctic. She lays the egg, rolls it over to the father, then takes off for warmer weather where she eats and eats and eats. For two months, the father stands stiff, without food, blind in the 24-hour dark, balancing the egg on his feet. After the little penguin is hatched, the mother sees fit to come home.