Eels Quotes - Page 2

• I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.

  William Shenstone

  Hate, Writing, Garden

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.176

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• I have a name,” I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder. “Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel,” he said, trying it out in different ways. “No one will tremble in terror at that. Oh my God!” he said in a high falsetto. “It’s Rachel! Run! Hide!

  Kim Harrison

  Running, Names, Trying

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• Nuestros caudalosos arroyos suministran una variada raza, La perca de ojos brillantes con aletas de tinte tirio, La anguila plateada, en brillantes volúmenes enrollados, La carpa amarilla, en escamas bañadas en oro, Truchas rápidas, diversificadas con manchas carmesí, Y lucios, los tiranos de las llanuras acuáticas.

  Alexander Pope

  Amarillo, Lagos, Carrera

  Alexander Pope (2008). "The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition", p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com.

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• Los apartamentos están hechos para las anguilas.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Made, Apartment

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• I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

  Tracy Morgan

  Strong, Powerful, Snakes

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• El aprendizaje por índices no hace palidecer a ningún estudiante,
  pero sujeta por la cola a la anguila de la ciencia.
  El aprendizaje por índices es un término utilizado para burlarse de los farsantes que adquieren conocimientos superficiales simplemente consultando índices.

  Alexander Pope

  Learning, Science, Superficial Knowledge

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• A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

  Tobias Smollett

  Science, Hunters, Tails

  Tobias George Smollett, Tobias Smollett (1831). “The adventures of Peregrine Pickle: In which are included, Memoirs of a lady of quality. In four volumes. ...”, p.246

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• Casarse es como meter la mano en una bolsa que contiene 99 serpientes y una anguila.

  Tomás Moro

  Marriage, Wedding, Hands

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• [W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the great stands of timber are here on the Pacific slope. We are in the center of the best of them. Probably nowhere on earth does there exist a forest to compare in continuous grandeur and unqualified beauty with the Redwoods that are found along the Eel River and to the north.

  Madison Grant

  Rivers, Unqualified, Lasts

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• Para muchos británicos, George Bush representa lo peor de Estados Unidos. Es el cruzado cristiano de derechas, el tejano tóxico que rechazó Kioto, la anguila tramposa que socavó la democracia a base de algo llamado "chads", una noción que nunca hemos entendido del todo.

  Graham Joyce

  Christian, Wings, Kyoto

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• Un mero cazador de índices, que sujetaba a la anguila de la ciencia por la cola. Cazador de índices es un término utilizado en tono burlón para referirse a alguien que adquiere conocimientos superficiales simplemente consultando índices. La alusión a "la anguila de la ciencia por la cola" fue utilizada en 1728 por Alexander Pope (q.v.).

  Tobias Smollett

  Learning, Science, Superficial Knowledge

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• How index-learning turns no student pale,
  Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

  Alexander Pope

  Science, Library, Tails

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.247

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• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

  Barón de Holbach

  Order, Doubt, Doe

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• If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

  Voltaire

  Philosophy, Flour, Ifs

  Voltaire (1919). "Voltaire en sus cartas: Selección de su correspondencia"

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• Si Dios no existiera, habría que inventarlo. Pero toda la naturaleza grita en voz alta que sí existe: que hay una inteligencia suprema, un poder inmenso, un orden admirable, y todo nos enseña nuestra propia dependencia de él.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Order, Doe

  Voltaire (1956). "Cándido: y otros escritos"

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