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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
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
My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye -- Thom Yorke
I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes. -- Christopher Titus
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
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
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
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 Tarkovsky
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
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 Dali
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
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
...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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