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Frogs Quotes

The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs—it's been documented—discover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is." So?" So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at... Margaret Atwood
If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees. Stephenie Meyer
In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs. Paulo Coelho
The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes. Philip K. Dick
There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs. Paulo Coelho
Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was still. But one big frog, bright green like a poster-paint frog, didn't jump, so I waved my arm and stamped to scare it, and it jumped suddenly, and I jumped, and then everything in the pond jumped, and I laughed and laughed. Annie Dillard
I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog. Haruki Murakami
Joanna Russ quote: "As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in..."
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. Joanna Russ
There is a kidney-shaped fish pool outside the picture window. I cleaned it out and put in some large goldfish I bought in a bait store. The cats are always trying to catch the fish, with no success. One time the white cat leapt for a frog across the pool. The frog dove in and the cat fell in. He is trouble-prone. William S. Burroughs
The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is highest in the world, will last as long as...the frog? Joseph Heller
E. B. White quote: "Analyzing humor is like disecting a frog. Few people are..."
Analyzing humor is like disecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. E. B. White
If the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is eat a live frog, then nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day!"Brian Tracy says that your "frog" should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one you're most likely to procrastinate on; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day. But, if you don't...if you let him sit there on the plate and stare at you while you do a hundred unimportant things, it can... Brian Tracy
E. B. White quote: "Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it..."
Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process. E. B. White
Cameron Diaz quote: "I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince..."
I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs. Cameron Diaz
E. B. White quote: "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are..."
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. E. B. White

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