We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.
If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.
I am not, and have never been, a supporter of cockfighting or any other forms of animal cruelty.
At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.
Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.
I think the unconditional love you get from an animal, especially a dog, is better than anything else.
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.
It's ridiculous that we let broadcast and cable shows compete against each other at the Emmys. They are not the same animal.
We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.
'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.
Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?
We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.
I'm such a weirdo. I'm animal-mad, so my ideal date would probably be something involving going to see animals.
Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
I've only got to see an animal on TV and I start screaming. I don't like the feeling of claustrophobia either.
Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.
The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.
Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily
understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
I don't understand "animal people" who say they are not environmentalists. Do they not realize that the vast majority of animals live in the environment?
In my case, I give a lot to animal welfare because I think that's pretty neglected in America.
Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
Having had so many human rats in my life, I don't think I'm scared of the animal variety.
In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
A great deal of my energy is directed toward battling the Los Angeles Animal Regulation Department.
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.
Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.
I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.
Bone is one of the hardest structures of the animal body; it possesses also a certain degree of toughness and elasticity.
Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.
I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.
I wear only animal socks. I went to Koreatown and got a hundred packs of panda and money prints.
I won't get involved in businesses that I think cut across any kind of animal welfare issues.
It's always been tough to imagine the T.U.F.F. Puppy animal gang living next to Danny Phantom.
The issue of xenotransplantation - such as transplanting animal organs into humans - is fraught with risks for animals, naturally, and for people.
May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.
In the wake of Animal House, the stock briefly and quite wrongly shot up. So I love that movie.
My spirit animal is a monkey. Because I have really long arms and I like being up high.
The animal industry has sucked the life out of me for the past 20 years. I need a break.
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.
The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
I'm professional, I'm allowed to say this. I let him lick my balls. So, that's what you need to get close with your animal.
The trans fatty acids (found in animal products and cooked oils) are a factor in breast cancer.
People close to me personally, politically, have expressed frustration that I'm not the political animal that they wish that I were.
I'm a vegetarian and have been since I was about four because I struggled to separate the idea of the animal from the food.
I am a dog and a cat lover; doesn't matter which animal it is but dogs are cuter at times.
When eyes were first developed in animals, suddenly animal life becomes proactive.
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.
Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.
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