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Life is a zoo in a jungle. -- Peter De Vries
I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them. -- Salman Rushdie
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. -- Norman Mailer
But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace. -- Roberto Clemente
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. -- Arthur Miller
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. -- Arna Bontemps
The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did. -- Levon Helm
George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that? -- Brendan Fraser
Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry. -- Will Shetterly
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman. -- Candace Bushnell
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. -- Luther Burbank
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. -- Albert Camus
Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world. -- Bette Davis
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang? -- Countee Cullen
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use. -- Sai Baba
None of the Jungle People like being disturbed. -- Rudyard Kipling
I just directed The Jungle Book with Cate Blanchet and Christian Bale. -- Andy Serkis
I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl. -- Pam Grier
What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue. -- Rudyard Kipling
Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2. -- Julie Benz
Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.' -- Candace Bushnell
'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.' -- Candace Bushnell
I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'. -- Stephen Lang
The only difference between kids and jungle animals is pants. Kids wear them. Jungle animals don't. -- Denis Leary
What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power. -- Candace Bushnell
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty. -- Keri Russell
Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. -- Wolfman Jack
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.' -- Keri Russell
I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white. -- Muhammad Ali
There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon. -- Harlan Ellison
'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran. -- Marjane Satrapi
If we're not counting kids' movies - because my kid is constantly watching The Jungle Book - I would have to say Wall Street. -- Rich Fulcher
I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything! -- Adrienne Barbeau
The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran. -- Marjane Satrapi
I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America. -- David Schwimmer
Last night I had a dream. When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan's behind first, for claiming to be King of the Jungle. -- Muhammad Ali
Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on"¦there was something touching and appealing about her. -- John Huston
When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things. -- Rick Astley
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The seven things that make up the rainbow of India's development are India's strong and deep rooted family system, Agriculture-Animal development, India's Matru Shakti (women power), Natural Resources (Jal, Jameen, Jungle), Youth power, Vibrant Democracy and Knowledge. -- Narendra Modi
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant. -- Michael Morpurgo
I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown here [The Asphalt Jungle (1950)], a columnist actually wrote: `How much like our Diana Dors she is`. -- Diana Dors
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child' and 'The Jungle Book.' Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant. -- Michael Morpurgo
Every freak has a mother. When I met Marilyn Manson I was struck by how nice he was. People are rarely as weird as you anticipate. Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book. -- Boy George
I'd run my whole life long to reach you; paddle my way across Atlantic and Pacific; traverse Jungle and Desert to find you; climb cliffs and drop from the sky to rescue you. Anything to be close to you. Any way to say I love you. -- Heather Kris Thomas
That evening we sat around the campfire. The clouds that had gathered overhead all day broke up and the moonlight shimmered on the Cocus River. The current glittered a silvery reflection. Nor was the Jungle dark. Hundreds of fireflies danced about - it was a magnificent evening -- Yossi Ghinsberg
My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.' -- Henry Louis Gates
My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life. -- Cynthia Ozick
Today the world is a big jungle. -- Roberto Cavalli
They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create. -- M. F. Husain
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. -- Desmond Morris
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling. -- Rudyard Kipling
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. -- Erik Erikson
I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. -- Edward T. Hall
It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs. -- Rona Barrett
Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them. -- Joanna Lumley
I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats. -- Chet Huntley
I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin' all these years is changin' it up. -- Les Claypool
In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. It's a relief. -- David McCandless
I think one of the coolest things you can do is disappear for a while, because it gives you the chance to re-emerge. To sort of pounce out of the jungle. -- Josh Homme
Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. -- George Reisman
If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress. -- Gautama Buddha
Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there. -- Eva Green
I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb. -- Johnny Giles
Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves was a civilizing triumph. -- Mary Ritter Beard
When I was a kid, I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one. -- Alicia Keys
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. -- Thor Heyerdahl
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong. -- G. Gordon Liddy
The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me. -- Armand Hammer
The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism. -- James Gleick
Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush. -- Noam Chomsky
Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America? -- Abraham Polonsky
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects. -- F. Sionil Jose
If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work. -- Kate Beckinsale
The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of. -- Gordon Taylor
The jungle changes a man. -- Cynthia Kadohata
Sleepwalking?" "Nightmare?" "Homicidal psycho jungle cat! -- Bill Watterson
Magic is the science of the jungle. -- Carl Jung
Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle. -- Peter Gabriel
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder. -- Sheryl Sandberg
It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in. -- Evelyn Waugh
Why are there so many trees in the jungle? -- Colin Mochrie
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy. -- Arthur Miller
I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass. -- Timbaland
In America, everything is big and more like a jungle. -- Meital Dohan
And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym? -- Sheryl Sandberg
Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful. -- Michael Dolan
I am from the jungle where the lion eats the cobra -- Lil Wayne
You can't play city rules when you live in a jungle. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen. -- Rudyard Kipling
If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle. -- Rickson Gracie
In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper. -- Rudyard Kipling
Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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The heart jungle drum beat finds its voice in love and matchsticks. -- Isabel Yosito
Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle. -- Ely Culbertson
We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies. -- Slick Rick
Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. --Dante Pontis -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle. -- Lane Kirkland
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office. -- John F. Kennedy
We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization -- Peter Kropotkin
These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information... -- Paul Simon
Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle. -- Andrew Vachss
...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing. -- Joao Magueijo
What I need is a lawyer who specializes in the law of the jungle. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Looks like somebody's got jungle fever.''That's not even the right kind of racist. -- Rainbow Rowell
When we left Ren in the jungle it was like a #Iscrewedupmydatewithadreamyguy +#Iabandonedmypetonthesideoftheroad feeling.#Kelsey" -- Colleen Houck
Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust. -- Tahir Shah
I've been to hell and back so nothing that happens in the jungle can be worse. -- Paul Burrell
If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does. -- John Wyndham
The reason why I praise the lion is because the lion is the king of the jungle. -- DJ Khaled
If you want to be a party animal, you have to learn to live in the jungle. -- Kelly LeBrock
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I learnt in the jungle that there is a great tranquility associated with having nothing of value -- Jennie Bond
I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people. -- Evangeline Lilly
If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company. -- Nigel Short
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet. -- Bill Veeck
We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle. -- Stephen Covey

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