#jungle

Where everything is words, you'd think I'd have some mastery and know my way around, but all this churning hatred, each man a verbal firing squad, immeasurable suspicions, a flood of mocking, angry talk, all of life a vicious debate, conversations in which there is nothing that cannot be said...no, I'd be better off in the jungle, I thought, where a roar's a roar and no one is hard put to miss its meaning. ↗

— Philip Roth

#jungle #mastery #suspicions #words #life

the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be... ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#song-lyrics #song-lyrics

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

#contemporary #i #i think #jungle #lipstick

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

#believe #bit #cannot #child #enter

I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible. ↗

— Adam Garcia

#areas #being #contrast #country #developed

I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl. ↗

— Pam Grier

#i #jungle #little #little girl #thought

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today. ↗

— John Hoeven

#america #better #better place #continent #country

But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#fantastic #few #going #i #jungles

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

#clearest #competition #economic #economics #evidence

We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies. ↗

— Slick Rick

#jungle #might #workers