I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.
He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. “You’re black.” “I prefer canine-American,” said Total.
When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.
What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.
I'm really an animal guy. I express myself in different ways as an animal.
I should like to be a horse.
Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.
Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.
Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?
Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
Mary had a little sheep, With the sheep she went to sleep. The sheep turned out to be a ram, And Mary had a little lamb.
We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.
And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.
Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?
Dress a goat in silk and it's still a goat.
The pit bull is not a breed but a conglomeration of traits, and those traits are reshaping what we think of as the American dog, which is to say the American mutt.
Cat, hmmm? From where I sit you look more like a Kitten." My head jerked around and I shot him an annoyed look. Oh, I was going to enjoy this, all right. "It's Cat," I repeated firmly. "Cat Raven." "Whatever you say, Kitten Tweedy.
Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.
