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You don't know what you're doing," Mitchell says. "Poking a stick into a den of snakes." "Poke-poke, motherfuckers." Atlanta pulls the trigger. — Chuck Wendig

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman. — Robert A. Heinlein

Politics is a foggy mire full of snakes. — Robert Jordan

The man spoke with an accent, and though I couldn't exactly place it, I knew that he was poor. His voice had snakes in it. And dysentery, and mangoes. — David Sedaris

They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Our ancestors used to play with snakes, we play with mouse. — Narendra Modi

What shall we do there?" "Climb up the hill to the old fort and look at the little wriggling gold snakes, and watch the lizards sun themselves. — Kate Chopin

Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers. — Rumi

No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem. — Steve Irwin

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it. — Laurie Anderson

Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled that you can't tell which is which until you've shot them both, and then it's too late. — M. L. Stedman - The Light Between Oceans

All day
I practice
squeezing hisses
through my teeth.

Whoever invented
English
must have loved
snakes. — Thanhha Lai

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes. — Jessica Savitch

Luckily there were no venomous snakes around Hoosick, N.Y., so I amassed quite a collection of milk snakes, garters, ribbons and ring-necked snakes. — Romulus Whitaker

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

Don King is the best snake oil salesman I ever met. The absolute best. — Mickey Duff

It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird! — Nicole Kidman

Live snakes?' said one of the scribes. 'You mean-'
'Yeah,' said Locke. 'They've got scales, they slither around - snakes. Keep up. — Scott Lynch

Crazy Elvis and the Flying Death Snakes. Make — Rick Riordan

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox. — Maneka Gandhi

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders. — Morrissey

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington. — Robert E.Lee

It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. — Tracy Morgan

It seethes and seethes, a river of darkness, putting forth lilies and snakes — D.H. Lawrence

I'm a tiger when I want love, but I'm a snake if we disagree. — Jethro Tull

Fascists are not human. A snake is more human. — Hugo Chavez

The only wolves we got to fear are the ones wear manskin, — George R R Martin

I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes. — Blake Shelton

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Snakes have no arms. That's why they don't wear vests. — Steven Wright

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer. — Dean Acheson

We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes;
Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes. — Q-Tip

Some people are afraid of ghosts, some of spiders or snakes - in those days we were afraid of our fellow human beings. — Malala Yousafzai

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I'd once overheard my daddy tell my momma that the six Winston boys had inherited their father's ability to charm snakes, the IRS, and women. — Penny Reid

Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite. — Morgan Brittany

I really think I like poisonous snakes. — Bindi Irwin

The only reason Jake 'The Snake' Roberts doesn't drink and drive anymore is because he is afraid he might hit a bump and spill his drink. — Jerry Lawler

(Actually, I have been surrounded by fire-breathing death snakes before, but not ones with wings. Everything is worse when it has wings.) — Rick Riordan

So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe. — John Milton

My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first". — John Dingell

One wouldn't want to consult with foreign snakes. — John Maddox Roberts

snakes rarely bite above the ankles — Janet Fitch

None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well. — Alexander McCall Smith

I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House. — Deval Patrick

If you step in a nest of snakes, does it matter who bites you first? — George R R Martin

Don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Snakes, he learned, dreamed in smells and vibrations, their tongues darting out to sample the air, their long bodies pressed close to the dirt. — Helene Wecker

St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake. — Conan O'Brien

Sometimes you need to put a fire to know where the snakes hide. — Robin Sacredfire

Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. — Lord Byron

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea. — R.C. Sproul

Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors. — Steven Wright

I held it in my hands like it was a baby (and, just for reference, I hold babies like they are snakes). — Karina Halle

I have one phobia, snakes. And by snakes I mean intimacy. — Dana Gould

My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders. — Steve Irwin

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way. — Mahatma Gandhi

Five friends I had and two of them snakes. — Frederick Buechner

When cornered, a rattle snake can become so angry it's been known to bite itself, which is exactly how I feel in traffic and relationships. — Dov Davidoff

There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes. — Bertrand Russell

The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people. — Pat Nixon

All of us knew he was a snake when we voted for him — Patricia Ireland

Earlier we used to play with snakes, but now we play with mouse. Through IT, India's youth has surprised the entire World! — Narendra Modi

We were friends before." Sort of. We never tried to kill each other. — Amanda Bouchet

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake. — Edgar Wallace

Surround yourself with snakes, and they will poison you. Surround yourself with eagles, and you will learn to fly to the heavens. — Mauricio Chaves Mesen

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help? — Dan Barker

I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness. — Helen Mirren

Python - why settle for snake oil when you can have the whole snake? — Mark Jackson

The waves were shadows, snakes under a quilt, creeping in almost unseen until they emerged in milky ripples at the water's edge. — Winston Graham

Make sure you cut the grass low so the snakes show — Banky W.

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you. — Elizabeth Warren

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright. — Lisa Alther

The Bible says gays arent natural.
What, and a talking snake is?! — Russell Howard

I never seen snakes on a plane — Kanye West

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The woman would be beautiful if she wasn't so deceitful, but snakes ofte3n had the most beautiful design on their scales. — Kristin Miller

Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me. — Claire Coffee

Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily ... — Aldous Huxley

A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string. — Chinua Achebe

I'm telling you - guys like Gavin, they're real snakes in the grass. — Heather Demetrios

Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether. — Richard Koch

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps. — Douglas William Jerrold

The Society slides in everywhere, snakes in a crack, water dripping against a rock until even the stone has no choice but to hollow and change shape. — Ally Condie

Some people are terrified of snakes. Some people are terrified about losing money. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant. — Anne Sexton

Inside the mansion of his mind, he was putting snakes back into boxes. — Jonathan L. Howard

If you came into the theater believing in the talking snake, it's kind of hard to leave the theater still believing in the talking snake. — Bill Maher

To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Life in a box was unbearable.
How did humans stand it? — Patrick Jennings

People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim. — Frederick Lenz

A relationship is like being in a forest, where snakes lurk awaiting the chance to entice. — Anthony Liccione

The homeland might be lacking snakes, but it held its share of venom. — Dorien Kelly

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on. — Glenn Danzig

I would pay snakes to bite her. — Chuck Palahniuk

It's one of my inventions-a shampoo," Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gestured toward the snakes-"that. — Joan Holub

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time. — Robert Jordan

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe. — Richard Gere

To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant. — David Livingstone