Tame Quotes

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

My fiance and I had a few problems working through some of the things that he saw me say and do on the 'Surreal Life.' Considering the company that I was in, Ron Jeremy and Trishelle from 'The Real World,' I think I was pretty tame.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different.

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.