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Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. -- Chuck Palahniuk
It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts. -- Kelly Brook
Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence. -- Henry Walter Bates
My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants. -- Jim Fowler
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own. -- Terry Brooks
See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile. -- Bill Haley
Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases. -- Russell Baker
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. -- Dan Rather
Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. -- Cordell Hull
Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator! -- Hunter S. Thompson
People wrestle alligators but not once has someone done it without an audience. -- Doug Stanhope
Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser. -- Diane Ackerman
You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot. -- Phyllis Diller
I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida. -- Karen Russell
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. -- Richard Miller
It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp. -- Ronald Reagan
Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame. -- Tony Joe White
Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest. -- Jack Hanna
The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them. -- Jack Hannah
I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company. -- Luther Allison
Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it. -- Buddy Hackett
It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them. -- George Foreman
I've just done a movie - Albino Alligator - with Viggo Mortensen, who's an actor I idolize. He influenced me in a way that has helped me move toward getting lead parts instead of supporting parts, merely through his presence. So now I tell everyone, as a joke, that I'm entering my Viggo Mortensen phase. -- Skeet Ulrich
Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn't matter whether it's an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same. -- Chuck Jones
Well, I'm wrestling alligators. -- Claire McCaskill
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. -- Richard Miller
I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river. -- Gail Simmons
I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor. -- Mike deGruy
Well, Im wrestling alligators. -- Claire McCaskill
Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators. -- Helen Gurley Brown
Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell. -- J. G. Ballard
[Footnote:] Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody! -- Will Cuppy
All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators. -- Charlaine Harris
Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear?dogs, alligators or men! -- Solomon Northup
Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories. -- Diane Ackerman
You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators. -- Jim Thompson
Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I'm also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, "Do not actually put your hand in the alligator," while terror says, "Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist. -- Mira Grant
Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest, -- Charlie Daniels
I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. Its a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river. -- Gail Simmons

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