Salamanders Quotes

• Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fire, Water, Buckets

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.196, 谷月社

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• History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

  Andrei Tarkovski

  Flames, Soul, Evolution

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 57), 1986.

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• Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal that begins its life in the water, but ends it on land - already, that's pretty weird. But, also, a lot of them are incredibly tiny and look wildly improbable. They have funny little toes, they stretch their throats into weird bubble shapes when they croak, and some of them are poisonous to the touch. I think kids from the twenty-second century might mythologize amphibians the way kids today mythologize dinosaurs.

  Annalee Newitz

  Crazy, Kids, Thinking

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Seems, Impediments

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• I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.

  Moby

  Stupid, Toxins, Toads

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. 5 de febrero de 2014.

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• My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.

  Thom Yorke

  Mean, Eye, Self

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• A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Three, Tails

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye

  Thom Yorke

  School, Eye, Lazy

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• I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

  Ted Turner

  Snakes, Earth, Bunnies

  "Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0" by Michelle Kung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• ...y los gritos de los pájaros y el alboroto de los monos se hacían cada vez más remotos, y el mundo se volvía eternamente triste. Los hombres de la expedición se sintieron abrumados por sus recuerdos más antiguos en aquel paraíso de humedad y silencio, remontándose a antes del pecado original, mientras sus botas se hundían en charcos de aceite humeante y sus machetes destrozaban lirios ensangrentados y salamandras doradas.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Recuerdos, Hombres, Aceite

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• I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.

  Salvador Dalí

  Writing, Doubt, Lions

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• caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.

  Barbara Hurd

  Nature, Adventure, Space

  Barbara Hurd (2005). “Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.

  Ricky Gervais

  Death, Suicide, Cat

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• What was I up to, you may ask? I certainly didn't want to meet Monsieur Evil again or creepy old Lord Salamander.

  Rick Riordan

  Evil, Creepy, Up To You

  Rick Riordan (2010). "The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid, Hyperion.

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• Me lancé a por ella, la cogí a cinco centímetros del cemento y me encontré cara a cara con la salamandra. Unos ojos rojos como el rubí me miraron con leve curiosidad, unos labios negros se entreabrieron y un largo filamento de lengua, delgado como una telaraña, salió de la boca de la salamandra y besó el cristal de la esfera en el reflejo de mi nariz. Hola, yo también te quiero.

  Ilona Andrews

  Love You, Eye, Reflection

  Ilona Andrews (2008). "La magia arde", p.17, Penguin

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• Frente a mí, en la siguiente fila de soportes, Jim levantó la mano y tocó varias veces con los dedos el pulgar, imitando un pico que se abre y se cierra. Negociar. Quería que negociara con un lunático que ya había convertido a cuatro personas en carne humeante. De acuerdo. Podía hacerlo. "¡Muy bien, Jeremy!" Le grité a la noche. "¡Dame la salamandra y no te cortaré la cabeza!" Jim se pasó la mano por la cara y se puso a temblar. Pensé que se estaba riendo, pero no podía estar segura.

  Ilona Andrews

  Corte, Noche, Manos

  Ilona Andrews (2008). "La magia arde", p.16, Penguin

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• Even in Madison’s day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison’s Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.

  Jeffrey Toobin

  Practice, Looks, Massachusetts

  "Drawing the Line". www.newyorker.com. March 6, 2006.

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