#crocodile

I'm a shreddermouf, aren't I?' 'I was afraid of that,' said Tansy. He was going to keep her in his larder until he was hungy again, and then he was going to rip her apart. 'Dis is my lair', said the shreddermouth proudly. 'It's de best lair in Tiratattle.' 'Is it?' said Tansy. 'Oh yes. It's a drainage tunnel. Goes right up to de surface, it does. Lots of storage space. My name's Gulp.' 'Tansy,' said Tansy, deciding not to ask him what he kept in his storage space and wondering whether introductions were quite the thing. ↗

— Elizabeth Kay

#hopeless-situation #humor #introductions #lair #men-eating-monster

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#eat #feeds #him #hoping #last

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile. ↗

— Bill Haley

#alligator #crocodile #later #see #while

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#cent #conservation #crocodile #earn #every

People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#cloaks #colour #content #crocodile-tears #deception

Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you. ↗

— Brian Cox

#crocodiles #eat #especially #full #kinds

The Zambesi is a big river; there's no crocodiles on 4 Mile Run. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#crocodiles #mile #river #run

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#crocodile #eat #feeding #go #hoping

My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#crocodiles #field #hence #predators #snakes

My prototype of a woman was the type who would appear in hallucinations at the last moments of your freezing to death at the top of an icy mountain, a mythical beauty who blurred the line between dreams and reality. For four years, that’s what I believed. And I wasted all of my university days–during which I had the most courage and honesty I would ever have towards life–because of it. ↗

— Miaojin Qiu

#notes-of-a-crocodile #beauty